Left Brain Activity
Right Brain Activity
Real
Not Real
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Left brain is mostly artistic and creative: True or False?
False
100
Right brain is artistic and creative: True or False?
True
100
True or false: Research suggests that people prefer one side of the brain or the other.
True
100
True or false: If you are not very artistic, you can train yourself to be more artistic.
True; you are able to develop and strengthen either side of your brain.
100
If you are very mathematical and analytical but not artistic, can you practice art and get better at it?
Yes
200
Is left brain more creative or analytical?
Analytical
200
Does the right brain help you more in art or social studies?
Art
200
Are left brain thinkers detail oriented or not?
They are.
200
After a two year brain imaging study, did professors see evidence of left or right brain dominance or not?
They saw no evidence of hemisphere dominance.
200
If you are very artistic, does that mean you'll be bad at math?
No, you can be good at both.
300
What does the left brain help you do: Paint a picture, or write an essay?
Write an essay
300
Where would you use your right brain the most: Math or Music?
Music
300
Are right brain thinkers detail oriented or not?
They are not.
300
Are both sides of the brain required for almost everything we do?
Yes, most things we do use both sides of the brain, even if it is mostly one side.
300
If you are very artistic when you are young and you stop practicing art, will you lose your artistic skills?
Yes, because you aren't just born that way; you have to strengthen the skills to keep them.
400
Do you use your left brain more in math or art?
Math
400
Does your right brain deal more with emotions or studying?
Emotions
400
What usually defines left brain or right brained people?
How they like to solve problems and analyze things.
400
When people injure a certain side of the brain, they lose analytical/artistic abilities.
True, and this was used to prove that the left brain right brain personalities is real, however it doesn't prove personality dominance, it just proves that certain sides control certain activities.
400
True or false: The reason people think hemisphere dominance is real is because some activities do use mostly one side of the brain.
True; however just because some things use more one side than the other doesn't mean people have left or right brain personalities.
500
Would your left brain help you write a poem, or right an essay?
Write an essay
500
Which color more represents the right brain: Purple or Grey?
Purple
500
True or false: An injury to a particular side of the brain causes a person to lose certain analytical/artistic abilities.
True, so this leads people to believe that there is such a thing as left brain/right brain personalities.
500
If you studied the brains of people who are more artistic vs. more mathematical, would you see hemisphere dominance?
No, because to do art actually also uses a little bit of the left brain and math uses a little bit of the right brain.
500
Do I think hemisphere dominance is real or not? :)
I do not think it is real. Based on my research, I found that there is much stronger evidence that the theory is false, and really how you become good at certain things is by practice, exposure, and your environment. You are not left brained or right brained, so you can actually be good at anything on both sides of the brain.
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