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NashVegas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-22-06 08:34 AM
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Left Hand / Right Hand - Irrelevent?
Edited on Wed Mar-22-06 08:38 AM by Crisco
I found this February article on the BBC website, looks interesting:

Left-handed and right-handed people view the world differently, scientists have shown.

Psychologists found they use opposite sides of their brains when looking at, and making sense of, an image.
...
Professor Glyn Humphreys from the University's School of Psychology said: "In right-handed people the right hemisphere sees the whole picture, whereas the left hemisphere attends to the details.

"However, we have found that in left-handed people, this is completely reversed.

"Not only our language function, but even the way we see the world can depend on our handedness."


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4242419.stm

Left Brain

Logical
Sequential
Rational
Analytical
Objective
Looks at parts

Right Brain

Random
Intuitive
Holistic
Synthesizing
Subjective
Looks at wholes


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It's interesting to ponder over the effects the study seems to point to, and how they might affect artists.

Now here's the spanner in the works: left brain supposedly controls language/communication, right? I work in radio and not only am I left handed, but an unusually high proportion of my co-workers have also been over the years. Up to and, in some cases, over 50% - while about 10% of the population as a whole is lefty.

Cleo, if you're reading this, don't you work in radio, also? What's the left/right population around your situation?
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