The Truth About Right Brained / Left Brained

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[hisdadjames]

My brain is perfectly balanced, with one cell on each side🤨

[Chloeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee]

Me personally my brain isn’t even on the same team as me so idek

[BobB-wq]

My now deceased wife had a severe stroke centered in the Brochette region of the brain. She could read, but had great difficulty speaking. However, if she sang she had little difficulty. Despite several years of speech therapy, and despite the theory of neuroplasticity, her speech never improved.

[joannecormierable]

I personally have a caffeine soaked semi functional brain

[martinh]

In the left side there is nothing right and in the right there is nothing left.

[BillGrahamW]

Another common mistake people make is using the term 'theory' incorrectly. People didn't 'come up with a theory' of anything. They came up with a hypothesis.
If they later prove their hypothesis, it becomes a theory.
Anti-science types use that misunderstanding to spread misinformation all the time, implying that theories are just ideas. This is incorrect.
It is becoming increasingly more important to differentiate between hypothesis and theories correctly.

[jaimeandersen]

I'm so used to watching Decoding the Unknown and Brain Blaze that it feels dirty and wrong to not hear Simon tangents 🤣

[loekverheijden]

These discoveries of the way the 2 halves communicate have no doubt played a huge part in understanding the difference between an autistic brain and a non-autistic one. I'm an autistic nurse myself and I also have a bachelor in social work, so when I was explained the difference in an autistic brain so many things about my personality, skills and challenges suddenly made so much more sense to me. The personality traits and preferences that people with autism often have in common seem so random sometimes at first glance. But they are very clearly linked in the information we have about the brain these days

[tommunyon]

So great to revisit this topic after 30-plus years. I did a research paper on educating both sides of the brain for a teacher certification course back when one had to actually ferret out periodicals at the library and read through the articles. Much of this material is familiar, but the new insights are marvelous to hear about. One specific point I remember from my research is that men who stuttered were sometimes discovered to have shown a preference for left-handedness as an infant, but were pressured to become right-handed anyway. The theory being that the brain also tried to relocate speech function as well as handedness, thus leading to a phenomenon where the hemispheres compete to take over speech, much like two people trying to go through a narrow doorway at the same time: "After you"; "No, after you"...

[mrhassell]

I'm brain hand sided. Can't stop face palming. 🤦

[CaptainMarvelsSon]

The idea of alien-hand syndrome freaks me out.

I can easily accept the body doing things beyond our control (eg: shaking from a seizure, unable to mentally stop it) but at least with the right knowledge, you know WHY it is happening. Alien-hand syndrome is more like unconscious actions that you can only observe as if someone else is doing it.

[tomholroyd]

It's very helpful to see your own brain MRI. I have a small cerebellum, which I use as an excuse for why I can't dance.

[MrBradleykeith]

My brain is more like scrambled egg, no division, keeping my thoughts together is like trying to herd cats. 🤣😂😋😎

[KarlRoyale]

I must be left brained - my wife says I'm never right.

[prussianblue]

I love this video! Too many people believe in this simplified and mostly wrong myth. When I was tested for Asperger's, the expert (who is a bloody neurologist by the way), asked me whether I was good at language or logic. And when I said "Well, I'm good at language, because it depends on logic.", she wouldn't have any of it... 😒

[brettevill]

The optical chiasmus is a crossing, not a chasm. "Chiasmus" is from the name of the Greek letter chi, which is written Χ or χ.

[cthularthpurgatory]

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[weed...]

It had to mentioned, though, that McGilchrist's book says this: the brain is divided for a reason, and the main reason is the use of attention - the left hemisphere has a narrow, detail-focused attention, while the right has a wide, relations-focused attention; the left hemisphere is a tool to work with things, the right hemisphere is in command and makes sense of the world. Culture, he says, has the ability to program us to favour one form or the other of attention - we're either paying more attention to the details in front of our nose and we simplify the world to verbal structures, or we're paying attention to the context, always take into consideration the larger context, admit that not everything can be put into words, have a more transcendental worldview. There are many of his lectures on YT where he explains it all in great and nuanced English.

[fitz]

30:10 "Queer?? Is this queer (**taps left brain**)? Is this queer (**taps right brain**)?" - Joe Dirt, probably

[EelcoPeterzen]

Although I love these videos debunking persistent myths, it's not entirely correct. At 7:25 it is stated that the information from our eyes is crossed over; information from the left eye goes to the right hemisphere and information from the right eye goes to the left. This is almost correct. Put simply, the information from the left side of both your eyes (which is what the eyes see on the right side, because of the lens in the eye) goes to the visual cortex in the left hemisphere, while the information from the right side of both your eyes goes to the right hemisphere. In other words, the optic nerves from the nasal side of the eyes crosses over to go to the other half of the brain. This way, the same visual cortex can process images from both eyes, allowing us to see in 3D.