Right-Brained: So That's Not Why I'm Creative, After All?
For years I've thought of myself as (and been proud of) being right-brained -- you know, creative and such? Also, thought, well, no wonder, when my left-brained husband had trouble understanding me. But a new study has proven that there is just no such thing. "Newly released research findings from University of Utah neuroscientists assert that there is no evidence within brain imaging that indicates some people are right-brained or left-brained," according to newswise.com. Many years ago when I was not long out of college, I took some kind of brain "test" and the instructor was astounded by my results. Shows what a brain can do. I can no longer remember just what I was heralded for. But I'm sure it had something to do with the right side of my brain, and I'm going to believe it, anyway. The study by University of Utah researchers analyzed functional lateralization (identifying certain mental processes that are mainly specialized to one of the br...