Researchers debunk myth of 'right-brained' and 'left-brained' personality traits

Wednesday, August 14, 2013 - 21:10 in Psychology & Sociology

Neuroscientists now assert that there is no evidence within brain imaging that indicates some people are right-brained or left-brained. For years in popular culture, the terms left-brained and right-brained have come to refer to personality types, with an assumption that some people use the right side of their brain more, while some use the left side more. Researchers have debunked that myth through identifying specific networks in the left and right brain that process lateralized functions.

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