What, Me Balanced? Who Knew?

[dancinghorse]

kaygo found this one highly annoying:

Brain Lateralization Test Results

Right Brain (66%) The right hemisphere is the visual, figurative, artistic, and intuitive side of the brain. Left Brain (68%) The left hemisphere is the logical, articulate, assertive, and practical side of the brain

Are You Right or Left Brained?
personality tests by similarminds.com

Comments

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

Isn't there something about various centers being on different sides, and more "art" centers will be on one side than on the other? Or is that a crock, too?

Personally I remain amused by the whole "bicameral mind" thing, and particularly amused by the old guy who insisted that Homer's heroes with their divine buddies, and the writers of the Bible, and all their ilk, were examples of one side of the brain talking to the other.

It is an observed fact that horses don't connect both sides of the brain very well. For the most part, if one eye has seen something, the other eye may not track on it when you go by in the opposite direction, so you have to introduce new things to each side individually. Camilla is very unusual in that if she learns something on one side, she can often apply it to the other as well. She's a genius-level intelligence by horse standards. Which is a large part of why she's so challenging. Most equine methodology presupposes a much lower level of intelligence, and a whole lot less reasoning capacity. Her reaction to it tends to be, "Whaddaya think I am, stupid?"

And no, so far I haven't noticed that one side of any horse is more "intuitive" than the other.

[larryhammer]

That's part of what's getting whittled away with more research, the generalization of more art and language and math and spatial relations centers being on one side or the other. We are a massively distributed computation system, with a few very oddly defined, oddly specific processing stations — and even many of those functions can be taken up by other areas (the ones that can't produce some bizarre cognitive errors, too).

---L.