the left and right sides of the brain.......???

Question

i took this quiz on wether i used the right or left side of my brain and i am right handed so i figured i used the left side of my brain...but this quiz told me i use the right side of my brain..

http://www.funquizcards.com/quiz/personality/which-brain-are-you-left-or-right.php

i thought left handed ppl used the right side of their brains!?!?

Answer 1

Your handedness is not a measure of what "sided" of your brain you are. Whichever hand that is your primary hand is only that way beacuse you have favored it over time. Studies have shown that children who initially favor their left hand can be conditioned to become ambidexterous

Answer 2

You should know that not all quizzes are accurate. If you take a quiz many times, you'll find that the results may change. Even IQ tests are not stable and change over time. Be even more wary of online quizzes that usually have very little questions. Real personality tests may have 50 or more questions.

By the way, left-handed people don't only use the right side of the brain, but are usually dominant on right-brain functions (take note: usually, not all the time).
Secondly, both your left and right brain communicate in tandem.
You may write with your left hand which is controlled by the right brain, but (usually) your left brain is where your language centers are at, and will have to work together with your right brain so that you can write sentences that linguistically make sense.

Answer 3

Handness does'nt yet equate with which hemisphere is being used,broca's theory is still being researched. We use both sides bilaterally [at the same time] but some of us,dyslexics for instance are more right oriented and strangely alot of dyslexics have left handedness in themself or a parent.

Also "right brain" functions like intution,artistic ability,holistic reasoning are historically associated more with women,men are sometimes refered to as "left brained" which is a far fetched generalisation but nonetheless men overwhelming tend to prefer reason/logic and systems.

I would not be suprised if most [not all!]women on that simplfied quiz came out "right brained" and men left.

But again you can't really be one or the other you are always using both.

Answer 4

LOL- this cracks me up. Although we are left and right handed, people tend to think that means we only use our left and right brains (the opposite to which we write.) But, that is not the case. We use both sides of the brains about equally. Yes, people might have a bit more left/right brain dominance, but that does not mean we are set in stone to use that side.

Answer 5

From your picture I am assuming your a woman, thus you probably have more crossmodal usage than men and use the right side more than men. Research finds that the corpuys collossum of women are thicker than the men. Since the c. callossum is used to transfer information between the two halves of the brain, it is assumed that it being thicker means it is used for more neural traffic. Men are known for using their left side (or right side in left handed people) almost exclusively, and they tend to think in linear manners, whereas women may think more holistically. Of course, many life changes and what we do in life changes these norms in individuals, but on the average this has been found to bo true.

Answer 6

one side of your brain is creativity the other is all logistics. it just depends of what you are stonger in. im not sure if the quiz is medically correct but its for fun. i thought the same u did. but i also knew about the sides of your brain. it just depends on what your stronger point is.