Do We Have Left or Right Brain Personalities?

Is it true that some people are more 'right brained' or 'left brained?' Certainly some people are more creative and free-thinking, while others are more logic oriented. But is this really a result of one side of the brain being more dominant than the other? Read More: An Evaluation of the Left-Brain vs. Right-Brain Hypothesis with Resting State Functional Connectivity Magnetic Resonance Imaging http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3... "Lateralized brain regions subserve functions such as language and visuospatial processing. It has been conjectured that individuals may be left-brain dominant or right-brain dominant based on personality and cognitive style, but neuroimaging data has not provided clear evidence whether such phenotypic differences in the strength of left-dominant or right-dominant networks exist." Brain Mythology http://www.positscience.com/brain-res... "Some myths are based on a modicum of truth; others arise from misinterpretations or from a need for a great sound bite." The split brain: A tale of two halves http://www.nature.com/news/the-split-... "Since the 1960s, researchers have been scrutinizing a handful of patients who underwent a radical kind of brain surgery. The cohort has been a boon to neuroscience — but soon it will be gone." One Brain...or Two? http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler... "How many brains do you have - one or two? Actually, this is quite easy to answer...you have only one brain. However, the cerebral hemispheres are divided right down the middle into a right hemisphere and a left hemisphere." The Split Brain Experiments http://www.nobel.se/medicine/educatio... "The split brain experiments revealed that the right and left hemisphere in the brain are good at different things." The Superhuman Mind http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/t... "Split-brain surgery, or corpus calloscotomy, is a drastic way of alleviating epileptic seizures, the occurrence of sporadic electrical storms in the brain." The Brain's Left and Right Sides Seem to Work Together Better in Mathematically Gifted Middle-School Youth http://psychology.about.com/gi/o.htm?... "There really may be something different about the brains of math-heads. Mathematically gifted teens did better than average-ability teens and college students on tests that required the two halves of the brain to cooperate." Lateralization of brain function http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laterali... "The longitudinal fissure separates the human brain into two distinct cerebral hemispheres, connected by the corpus callosum." Watch More: 3D Brain Map: http://testtube.com/dnews/dnews-402-m... Exercise Your Brain: http://testtube.com/dnews/dnews-439-e... Ode To Coffee: http://testtube.com/stufftoblowyourmi... ____________________ DNews is dedicated to satisfying your curiosity and to bringing you mind-bending stories & perspectives you won't find anywhere else! New videos twice daily. Watch More DNews on TestTube http://testtube.com/dnews Subscribe now! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_c... DNews on Twitter   / dnews   Anthony Carboni on Twitter   / acarboni   Laci Green on Twitter   / gogreen18   Trace Dominguez on Twitter   / trace501   DNews on Facebook   / dnews   DNews on Google+ http://gplus.to/dnews Discovery News http://discoverynews.com