What to Expect:

Begun in the work on patients with epilepsy, split-brain research suggested maybe people generally rely on one hemisphere of their brain over the other. Except, that doesn’t actually make any sense when you understand how the brain works. Although most people already know this, we expanded on this by elaborating on the history of this idea, and the one or two researchers who have continued to push this line of research despite its lack of fruitful outcomes… or general utility. Still, a lot to learn about this seemingly obvious urban myth.

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Links for Today:

• https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/left-brain-right-brain-myth/ (The bulk of the overview of this episode came from this blog)

• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3787275/ (Overview of “research” on hemisity)

• https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0071275 (Large study demonstrating lack of evidence for hemisity)

• https://www.queendom.com/tests/access_page/index.htm?idRegTest=3181 (Right/left brain personality type

• https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/consciousness-self-organization-and-neuroscience/201802/no-you-re-not-left-brained-or-right (More debunking right/left brain nonsense)

• https://www.healthline.com/health/left-brain-vs-right-brain (History of right/left brain personality types)

• https://www.verywellmind.com/left-brain-vs-right-brain-2795005 (Another article describing the myth of left brain right brain personality)

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