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[alisonian]

Brain Lateralization Test ResultsRight Brain (48%) The right hemisphere is the visual, figurative, artistic, and intuitive side of the brain.
Left Brain (56%) The left hemisphere is the logical, articulate, assertive, and practical side of the brain
Are You Right or Left Brained?
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Comments

[casu_consulto]

I think you must really be right brained if the two add up to more than 100%! ;-)

[alisonian]

Hehe ... didn't notice that before. Usually I do notice things like that ... does that mean I really am more left brained than I thought?

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[artemis_67]

Hey - are you Abby's mum as I deduce from your posts on her LJ? I'm Jem's mum so we are sort of sisters-in-law or something, if I am right. Anyway I'm studying psych at Macquarie & am just about to go off & write an essay about brain lateralisation so email me for interesting references! deb67@tpg.com.au

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[alisonian]

Hi! I'll email. (now watch the younger generation get paranoid :))

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[nornagon]

...eek.

*runs off and hides*

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[alisonian]

hehehe ... hey i'm not scarey :)
You know how it goes: your mother says how wonderful you are and I say how wonderful Abby is ... mothers do that. Nothing new.

[alisonian]

Don't really know which I would rather be actually. Sometimes I like to think of myself as creative/people oriented etc but I really hate being considered not analytical or an intellectual lightweight, and vice versa. So I guess somewhere in the middle is where I would like to be. I'm left handed, but I believe that doesn't really correlate to right-brainedness. I have heard that the really outstanding mathematicians of the world are male, left-handed and short-sighted!
I have also heard that left handedness has been associated with preterm birth, twin gestations, and maleness. There must be the stats out there somewhere. Are left handers more often male? I was a premmy (one month early) - not by today's standards but by the standards of many moons ago I was. And I read about followups on premature births, to check on their development, and reporting that something like 50% were left handed, which is a huge variation on the 20% in the community.
But I don't know how much of this relates to brain lateralization.