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Title: Which side of your brain is more dominant?
Post by: Rapunzel on December 07, 2013, 06:08:25 am
http://en.sommer-sommer.com/braintest/

Which side of your brain is more dominant?
The 30-Second Brain Test

test at the link
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Post by: Rapunzel on December 07, 2013, 06:09:02 am
My test came out 50/50 I use both sides equally.......
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Post by: Oceander on December 07, 2013, 06:22:16 am
31/69 left/right
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Post by: Cincinnatus on December 07, 2013, 06:33:43 am
I came out using both sides equally, too.
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Post by: Formerly Once-Ler on December 07, 2013, 06:46:06 am
41/59 left/right
Title: Re: Which side of your brain is more dominant?
Post by: Rapunzel on December 07, 2013, 06:55:34 am
The Right Brain

According to the left-brain, right-brain dominance theory, the right side of the brain is best at expressive and creative tasks. Some of the abilities that are popularly associated with the right side of the brain include:

    Recognizing faces
    Expressing emotions
    Music
    Reading emotions
    Color
    Images
    Intuition
    Creativity

The Left Brain

The left-side of the brain is considered to be adept at tasks that involve logic, language and analytical thinking. The left-brain is often described as being better at:

    Language
    Logic
    Critical thinking
    Numbers
    Reasoning

recent research (http://psychology.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=psychology&cdn=education&tm=36&f=10&su=p284.13.342.ip_&tt=65&bt=0&bts=0&zu=http%3A//www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2004/04/interhemispheric.aspx) has shown that abilities in subjects such as math are actually strongest when both halves of the brain work together. Today, neuroscientists know that the two sides of the brain work together to perform a wide variety of tasks and that the two hemispheres communicate through the corpus collosum.


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maybe this is why working with numbers has always been my strongest suit.  I always feel like my creative side is at war with my logical side and I am great at recognizing a face and can never remember a name to save my life....
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Post by: EC on December 07, 2013, 09:12:43 am
75% Right. 25% Left.

Makes sense, considering I'm also left handed.

Loved the two top words on the brain map though - Creativity and chaos. Describes me and my life pretty well!  :laugh:
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Post by: Oceander on December 07, 2013, 03:28:55 pm
Without intentionally trying to manipulate the results, I took the test again and scored a 50/50 left/right score.  The difference appears to come from one change:  one the test that asked you to pick the color, not the word, I missed one last night and got it correct this time; while you can choose not to believe me, each sample in the test was presented for such a short time that I had to react without time to engage in the reflection needed to manipulate the results.
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Post by: alicewonders on December 07, 2013, 04:21:38 pm
39 Left/61 Right

Chaos and creativity, that's me in a nutshell as well!
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Post by: Rapunzel on December 07, 2013, 06:15:48 pm
Without intentionally trying to manipulate the results, I took the test again and scored a 50/50 left/right score.  The difference appears to come from one change:  one the test that asked you to pick the color, not the word, I missed one last night and got it correct this time; while you can choose not to believe me, each sample in the test was presented for such a short time that I had to react without time to engage in the reflection needed to manipulate the results.

I think that is why there is a time limit, I realized on the last one of the group you are referring to what I was doing, but I think that is part of the reasoning, if I'd taken it a second time I could have manipulated the test.
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Post by: flowers on December 07, 2013, 06:40:41 pm
49/51
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Post by: Luis Gonzalez on December 07, 2013, 06:40:42 pm
I don't have to take the test, I already know which side of my brain is more dominant.

My wife's.
Title: Re: Which side of your brain is more dominant?
Post by: flowers on December 07, 2013, 06:51:37 pm
I don't have to take the test, I already know which side of my brain is more dominant.

My wife's.
:laughingdog:
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Post by: truth_seeker on December 07, 2013, 06:57:45 pm
53 left
47 right

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Post by: Bigun on December 07, 2013, 07:55:35 pm
50/50 for me.