Quote:But 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.

For years in popular culture, the terms left-brained and right-brained have come to refer to personality types, with an assumption that some people use the right side of their brain more, while some use the left side more.

Following a two-year study, University of Utah researchers have debunked that myth through identifying specific networks in the left and right brain that process lateralized functions.

Quote: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.

Quote:The spinning girl is a form of the more general spinning silhouette illusion. The image is not objectively “spinning” in one direction or the other. It is a two-dimensional image that is simply shifting back and forth. But our brains did not evolve to interpret two-dimensional representations of the world but the actual three-dimensional world. So our visual processing assumes we are looking at a 3-D image and is uses clues to interpret it as such. Or, without adequate clues it may just arbitrarily decide a best fit – spinning clockwise or counterclockwise. And once this fit is chosen, the illusion is complete – we see a 3-D spinning image.

(08-17-2013, 05:57 AM)Steppenwolf Wrote: I've seen this before...can make it go both ways, as Tanner says, by looking at the foot.

(08-17-2013, 02:12 PM)xise Wrote: totally clockwise/right brained...if I tried really hard I could see it go counter/left for a bit.

(08-17-2013, 06:16 PM)rie Wrote: I think belief structures are 'imbedded' in one's personal unconscious, which is built & maintained based on one's life experience. So if one were to 'plan' the sort of life lessons to be learned (choosiing parents, family, etc) prior to incarnation, it's possible that we incarnate to take/accept certain belief structures.

I think this right/left brain personality could be more closely related to Jungian typology e.g., being INFP etc. One could say having NF (intuitive feeling) as the primary function, they would seem more 'right brain' compared to those who are ST (sensing thinking), who would more closely resemble 'left brain'. There's also P perception and J judgment which could point to being 'right' and 'left', respectively.

Brain laterization: if you're left handed, you're most likely using a lot of the right hemisphere, while if you are right handed most of your activities lies in the left hemisphere. That's one way to understand dominance. That doesn't really correlate to personality tho.

Here's a simple hemispheric test that measures how information is processed according to the characteristics that we attribute to 'right' and 'left' brain. The test is simple bc it gives you 2 options and you can guess which one points to 'right' or 'left' characteristics so it's not really a good test but the idea is that there are divergent ways of being. And of course, we use both sides, always or else you would have major cognitive problems (if you're just using one side). If your corpus collasum (the bridge between the left and right hemisphere of the brain) is 'thick' you're probably able to use both sides more equally.

http://capone.mtsu.edu/studskl/hd/hemispheric_dominance.html

I have right brain dominance according to this test.
Holistic Processing information from whole to part; sees the big picture first, not the details.
Random Processing information with out priority, jumps form one task to another.
Concrete Processes things that can be seen , or touched - real objects.
Intuitive Processes information based on whether or not it feels right know answer but not sure how it was derived.
Nonverbal Processes thought as illustrations.
Fantasy-Oriented Processes information with creativity; less focuses on rules and regulations