Left Brain Right Brain is a MYTH
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It’s said that the left side is mostly in charge of logical behavior such as mathematics, putting things in sequence, language, facts and so on. The right brain has more creative parts like; imagination, intuition, visualizing your feelings and all that kind of thing
Because of this, it’s become a common idea that most people are either left-brained or right brained, just like they are left or right handed. The accounts, lawyers and bankers are all smart, serious left brainers. The painters, musicians and hairdressers are all wild and impulsive right brainers.
But is this really true? Can you have a dominant side of your brain?
The answer is no. And your brain is also nowhere near as divided as most people believe. The two sides are much more similar than we think and most processes are found on both sides. The two parts do have different functions but they are not divided up as simply as logic on one side, creativity on the other.
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_"The brain is the most important organ."_ -- The Brain
The Brain is so narcissistic
This has to become top comment
Best coment ever
T-shirt time!
*BRANE*
"Protect me at all costs" - the brain
"Defend me at all costs" -the ego
Not logic vs creativity, but detail-oriented vs holistic
Pretty much left brain right brain with different words
@@michaelmeyering5700 Exactly. Left-brain / Right-brain is NOT a myth.
@synchromorph AMOR LEGIS, AMOR SUB VOLENTE!" 👍🍄🗝🧩☯️
But that's not what this video or any scientific study said
@@boi6929 that’s just your left brain talking
I think both parts play a great and EQUAL role in all logical and creative endeavors..
An inventor, for example, has to use his intuition (creative side) to come up with some invention. But they also have to use mathematical tools (logical sides) to draw conclusions, put into practical applications, et cetera.....
The intuition comes from the gut brain (a couple million neurons down there) I think the main point is that it isn't a clear division in terms of the physical brain. People think the left and right hemispheres of their brains are different, they think handedness corresponds to personal traits... a lot of bad information parading as common knowledge.
The fact the brain named itself in a sense is oddly curious in itself 🧠😂
I feel like you didn’t prove the LB.RB is a myth, but actually proved it more, and just demonstrated more closely how it actually works. If anything, you helped disprove the simplistic perspective and revealed a more whole one :)
Well it seems you're wrong. They did disproved the myth, as calling an artist "right brain" or a mathematician "left brain" is not representative of how they use their brains at all. The two sides are used to perform any task, be it counting or painting. That means an artist isn't "right brain", nor does it have anything to do with their character traits, like being creative or wild. There isn't a stronger brain activity on one side as they are simply not made to dominate or be submissive to the other like, for example, your hands. Calling someone someone "right brain" doesn't mean anything, as the only difference we currently know between the two is that they handle different things to complete a single task. For example, both will work together to make you able to understand what you're seeing, but you don't use one side more to do that. If you wanted to stick a side to a certain task, then I guess there are some cases where could. For example, if you only wanted to write random words with no context, you would use one side more to exactly do this. But at the same time, they are doing so many different tasks, like understanding what you see, that a balance will be reached overall. Even if you were just thinking about the grammar of random words with no context, I don't think you could say you're using one side more, since your brain still needs to use it's memory and choose which words it's picking. Anyways, they actually did a good job a debunking the myth, you can't call someone a "right brain" or "left brain" to represent anything, nor can you assume you're using one side of the brain more then the other for any given tasks because there are too many factors to consider.
@@boi6929 Actually, historically, it hasn't been said that right-brained thinkers are "wild," so in that, this video jumped to an assumption. The theory does actually represent that we all use both sides of our brain, but one hemisphere, depending on how our spine developed in the womb, will be more dominant. Just how we use our left hand or right hand to write- doesn't mean we cannot use the other hand at all. It only means that we use the more dominant hand to write. Each hemisphere controls different functions, and the functions we lean more towards is what makes us "right-brained" or "left-brained" but the theory does not actually state that "that is all you use." It also states that a person can use close to an equal percentage of both, so the theory isn't so black and white. We can also develop the side we don't use as much.
Actually no, it does disprove that. No one has a preference for one side of their brain. Everyone uses both sides in their daily life. Also, while both sides perform different tasks, the idea that one is creative and the other is logical is nonsense
@@eliasgibson4743 well actually Autism spectrum seems to be a spectrum because their brains prefer one side over the over, the right side being non verbal and social and the left being logical and mathematical and very verbal . People on the spectrum seem to prove this left side right side of the brain isnt so far fetched, it explains the lack of understanding social cues and taking things literally, some having opposite traits being very creative but logical and more analytical struggles,
This is a no-brainer
Or a both brainer
Bimbo got Brains!
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Yea ok rea
Thank you for that, that was absolutely great
"The brain is merely an illusion created by the brain."
Keep it up guys. I really enjoy these videos. Thanks for all you do.
I have noticed that another myth is left and right handedness. Truthfully, anybody can teach themself to use both hands equally. It is the schools that force you to choose a hand and stay with it. I never chose a hand and stayed with it. I remember the teachers hitting my hands with a ruler telling me to choose a hand and stay with it. I told one of the teachers that just because I could do something she could not do does not mean she had to hit me. That earned me a visit to the principal's office. I then told the principal about being hit with a ruler by teachers for not picking a hand. Something must have happened because I was never hit with a ruler on my hands again. Just to anger the main teacher that used to hit me, I would sometimes draw with one hand and colour with the other to get her angry. Today, I still seemlessly switch between my hands. Why use only one? We have two. Anybody can de elope both hands to function the same. If an idiot like me can do it, anybody can.
It sounds like you have intentionally NOT been trained to use one hand, so what about the rest of us?
I too am partially ambidextrous. But it's a bit different for me, as I favor different things in different hands. i.e. I do all my writing/drawing with my right hand (trained into me by schooling), but I throw left handed and am a southpaw fighter. I also eat left handed.
Anybody can develop both hands to function the same because of freewill. But I truly believe all humans have a default setting
*I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix*
When you don't know what you are.
I had hard time figuring out the left and right brains factuality, due to how many websites talk about their individual functions. So, I’m really glad this channel clarified that. Furthermore, I had a hard time attaining and trusting information about the brain as a novice researcher.
I love the animation style used for this one, great work
Crazy how powerful the brain is.
It's yin vs yang. In order to be in balance one needs both yin (darkness, creativity, social empathy) and yang (speech, patterns, details). They are supposed to work together because that is life, that is Tao, that is the way. They are each individual spirits but they prefer to be together.☯️
*My left and right brain have both been blown*
I wonder if CBD could have helped those kids with seizures rather than scooping out half their brain
I totally believe in the psychiatric properties of psychedelics
@Tommy McKenna they don't cure anything in particular, they affect the brain in a way that enables it to reform and grow in ways it can't without their help.
They break molds. That's why they're also potentially dangerous.
Fascinating stuff!
*Lvl 1:* Left brain
*Lvl 60:* Right brain
*Lvl 100:* Both
_That's how intelligence works..._
hmmmm
So I'm level *100*
"Myth" does not mean "fiction." Also look up brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor's story about her "stroke of insight" and the great work of Ian McGilchrist. The left brain/right brain dichotomy is very real and the knowledge thereof is encoded in some of the world's oldest writings (see Bill Donahue).
I’m a left handed artist and so are one of my brothers and sister. My other brother is a right handed artist. His art deals in shapes, and depth. Me and my others siblings can draw freehanded without reference. Me and my sister are dyslexic. I can’t remember people’s names or phone numbers but I can do math in my head without paper. I can’t agree with this video. He goes from saying the brain is the most complex thing ever then says it’s rigid and straight forward.
The left-brain right-brain theory is a false dichotomy. People aren't black and white like that. You can be both logical and creative, and you can be both analytical and emotional. People often associate being logical with being detail-oriented and practical. That's not true at all.
@@kasajizo8963 Look up on Carl Jung. He talks about the right and left brain in complex philosophical detail.
Super! Well done! Plasticity! Creation...
I think i got click baited, but my brain can’t tell
Logic isn't independent of creativity. You can be both logical and creative.
The separation of hemispheres does not make them mutually exclusive from the other.
Nice and informative, I really liked the animation
Misleading title and general message?
The common idea can be set up hierarchically like this:
Primary: "Most people can be identified as left brained or right brained."
Secondary: "The right hemisphere is literally and biologically in charge of all the holistic functions, while the left hemisphere is literally and biologically in charge of all the specific functions".
This video has indeed proven that the secondary part of the common idea is a myth, but has at the same time only proven the validity of the primary part further.
The hemispheres are in fact different and do have different roles, as explained at 3:34: "In general, the right hemisphere looks at things more holistically, meaning it takes in the bigger picture, while the left takes in the fine print.".
Therefore, if I were to call a mathematician left brained, I would be correct in a more practical and holistic sense. By saying 'most mathematicians are left brained' I have not necessarily implied that they literally and biologically uses their left brain more, that's just a scientific assumption. I could just as well implied that both of their hemispheres work proportionally together, but that most of their cognitive processes originate from their left hemisphere (which could be the case).
The title of this video could just as well be: "Left Brain Right Brain is primarily TRUE, but a common related belief is a MYTH."
Comments are appreciated.
Agree completely. They asserted that it was a myth, then went on to validate the myth they initially debunked! (Clickbait)
There is a clear difference between the functions of the two hemispheres. The location of cognition depends firstly on the situation (eg. math problem, or music creation) and secondly, how developed the different sides are for the individual. One can train to be more in touch with certain parts of the brain. We as a species have become distracted. We need to be more in tune with our intuition.
I recommend "You are Two" by CPG Grey. And also strongly recommed "Innsæi" on Netflix.
So much fuckers cant understand what he means. He means that each side does something, but there’s no right or left brained person
Great points!
Dude, you're hella wrong because it is not left brain vs right brain. This is not a video talking about slang language where you say he's left brained but really meant he is using all of it just detail specific.
The video explains how both sides of the brain work in unison and produce the same function and it is merely a sense of reasoning that is divided.
However it is really your body that suffers. Not your personality. You're so developed, ur mind is already stable at that point.
You say making a scientific assumption on a scientific is wrong and that really confuses me about what you mean. Also, no, you can't call a mathematician a "left brain", since their use of the word holistically was about how one understand what's he's seeing and didn't really refer to other tasks. To do maths, you need each side of the brain, I'm pretty sure they explained that. Even if one of the tasks you're doing is requiring more power from one side, the total amount of tasks happening at the same time is unknown as it is far too high. Saying someone is "left brain" doesn't mean anything, and studies have shown no difference in brain power use on each side even while one is accomplishing a certain task.
So litt 🔥🔥 this video much give inspired to me
you just proved that the two sides of the brain work together, and actually were affirmative of the fact that they have different functions
Ironically, this video serves to disprove nothing.
Well it seems you're all wrong and angry for some reasons. They did disproved the myth, as calling an artist "right brain" or a mathematician "left brain" is not representative of how they use their brains at all. The two sides are used to perform any task, be it counting or painting. That means an artist isn't "right brain", nor does it have anything to do with their character traits, like being creative or wild. There isn't a stronger brain activity on one side as they are simply not made to dominate or be submissive to the other like, for example, your hands. Calling someone someone "right brain" doesn't mean anything, as the only difference we currently know between the two is that they handle different things to complete a single task. For example, both will work together to make you able to understand what you're seeing, but you don't use one side more to do that. If you wanted to stick a side to a certain task, then I guess there are some cases where could. For example, if you only wanted to write random words with no context, you would use one side more to exactly do this. But at the same time, they are doing do many different tasks, like understanding what you see, that a balance will be reached overall. Even if you were just thinking about the grammar of random words with no context, I don't think you could say you're using one side more, since your brain still needs to use it's memory and choose with words it picking. Anyways, they actually did a good job a debunking the myth, you can't call someone a "right brain" or "left brain" to represent anything, nor can you assume you're using one side of the brain more then the other for any given tasks because there are too many factors to consider.
The "elastic" it is really called plasticity!
sometimes I feel the right brain is more inclined than the left. now I am beginning to know which direction I am heading. thank you for this animation. i love this words actually..."they both work together to find the answer.."
This channel is underrated
my cousin was in a car wreck when she was 2 or 3 and as a result her head was split open and lost in the wreckage. The doctors told our family she would never walk, talk, or have any resemblance of a normal child. She was about 6 years older then me so as a child I knew her and my uncle were in accident because no one ever talked about it for more then a word or two. After I graduated from High School I was having a garage sale and my cousin was there with us visiting. A customer was talking with my dad and he called my cousin to come outside. This would be the first time I ever heard the miracle that happened. The man talking to my dad was a doctor who was a brain surgeon and he was telling my dad about a local child he had to do emergency surgery on a few decades before. My dad realized he was talking about my cousin and called her out to meet him. The doctor told us the horrific reality of that night and referred to her (only knowing she survived) as the miracle child. He said the EMT's could not recover the parts of our brains that control breathing,walking, and talking. But my cousin graduated high school and had a normal life without me ever seeing any evidence that there was something wrong.
Nice video. Please make a video on the book "crushing it" by Gary vaynerchuck, recently I made a video on Hustle, would like to see more about Gary vee.
I love the intro song, makes me feel nostalgic 😊
Does it sound like wii sports resort or something to you? Sort of to me.
*No one can be sad when they have a balloon. @*
A balloon full of nitros
It will be much appreciated if you can supply us with traceable information regarding the research you quote.
wow, now i realize my left and right brain work together to make small thing to be awesome thing that i've ever do in my life.. tq
Know i know how my brain function" work together to perform task " . Thankyou for this animation because of this i understand about the brain
The Animation is so cute :)
I can use the "What color is the sneaker" trick to prove that one side of my brain is dominant and I can change the way I see color with a brief mediation focusing on the opposite side of my brain.
So it's more like a partial-myth?
More like an oversimplification.
@@jimichan7649 yeah I suppose so
I LOVE THIS
When you don't know what you are, the brain know who you are! :)
Even with this new info it just further confirms that I'm very much more right brained than left.. I struggle finding words and suck at math but I'm great at context and big picture ideas. Even my art isn't meticulously detailed 🤔
Are you related to Nancy Pelosi by chance?
Free Mixing and Mastering!!!!!
If you severe the left and right hemispheres of the brain through a surgery called corpus calloscotomy, aka split brain surgery, you can talk to the left and right hemishere independently. Often times this leads to contradicting answeres to simple questions like "what is your favorite color". This implys that you are two, scary.
CPG Grey. Great video. I recommend "Innsæi" on Netflix. Follows the same tune on a very thought provoking journey.
im two scary? 👻👻
Pop culture over simplifies whatever has to do with the brain and psychology?? Thanks for that knowledge pop culture channel!
And especially thank you for reinforcing the true facts of what side does what. And last but not least thank you very much for not confusing anyone with all the different lobes etc of the brain, that would have completely blown my mind.
So it not a myth? The hemispheres are specialized but both are used.
Marcos Luna they are specialized but it’s not as simple as saying logic on one side creativity on the other
@@theme542 I agree, but its also not as simple as saying that its a myth when they are indeed specialized. Not to the extent they are completely independent of eachother but nonetheless, they are more active in particular situations
Julien Paradis he means one side isn’t gonna change you
But one side will change You? He specifically said patients tend to lose eyesight and hand movement on the opposing side of the body from where the portion of brain was removed. Regardless of there ability to speak write and do math that sounds like one side effects to me.
Brain on organisms had existed for 100 of millions years. It is truly incredible that those had evolved to current human brain which is capable of complex thinking. Very Magnificent indeed.
Wait so you say that for one task each part has a role to play but when you remove one of them things work fine? Idk I'm confused
The whiteboard animations are incredible.
What if both brain sides are pilots controlling a meat Jagger?
... and dee gov is dee kaijing
Do you read minds? Because few days ago I thought on same exact topic!! Btw thanks :)
My brain is tingling while watching this..
There is plenty of evidence that a hemisphere can be more activated (aka dominant) for certain tasks.
I always sees it as which side you lean more. I don't think that anyone out there believes that they are don't need the other side of their brain
As a medical student i can say, both parts of the brain’s cortex have the same capability, however it tends to develops dominancy in some functions in one side,usually the left brain has greater conections linked to the abilities to interpret overall stimullus and respond to it verbally, the wernicks and broca area. This video tells lies using trues, in fact in childs, if u take off half of their cortex, it can happen a compensation in the connections, however adult which have been subjected to same procedure might not be so lucky, and have serious neural disfunctions!
Reference: Guyton and Hall textbook of medical phisiology, 13ed. And Angelo machado, neuroanatomia funcional 3ed
The brain named itself
There is also a liner of neurons in your intestine. It is called the enteric nervous system. It is commonly known as the second brain.
how is it a myth if they are doing separate things working together?
Imagine what will happen with brain-machine interface or replication of the brain in synthetic. Future will be interesting.
I suspect the analytical, regimented right side will copy over readily; the more emotional stuff that's locked away in the left brain will never transfer over as easily. AI has a way to go before it can have the sentience of a human, before it can understand the feeling of sorrow, or empathy.
Been saying that for decades...
Nice vid
They will not divide us!
How does this stack up against cpg Grey's video ?
Some other interesting things can occur in individuals who have had the hemispheres of their brain separated, like alien hand syndrome.
this was new, the 2 halves collaborate
True: we have both left and right brains. True: they work together for most things we need to do. True: each side has different main foci, but both are needed simultaneously to truly understand and process information and take effective action. False: they are absolutely distinct. False: people are either left or right brained. True: the brain is elastic and can function cognitively w/only 1/2 a brain, though motor/sensory functions on other side are limited.
The Master and His Emissary by Dr Iain McGilchrist
The left brain controls the right side of our body and the right brain the left side.
I also know this from personal experience as I suffer from strabismus. My right eye turns inward when I try to look in the distance and this leads to me seeing double vision. What the right eye sees will appear on the left side.
I am also left handed and also love to visualize. The right side of my brain is more dominant. It is not a myth.
If you have a balloon you are not allowed to be sad.
That's a no-brainer.
How do we know how many stars are in the galaxy again? I think I slept on that one in high school
Wonder what Iain McGilchrist, author of the seminal book, "The Master and His Emissary" would say about this...
I don’t FEEL that it’s a myth because when I think I feel energy in the left side of my head. My left side of my head feels dominant while my right side isn’t just there but it’s presence isn’t as strong as the left. But I guess that’s just the logical side thinking at that moment in that time right then because how else would I notice it lmao
Strokes
When you have a left hemi, the right side of the body is affected and vice versa
maybe youre right about this but the two halves control either side of the body too
How many times has the word brain been used?
Nobody says the left and right part of the brain do not wotk together. Speech is in the left part of the brain. It is about left or right brain dominance . You can become more ballanced by meditating creating path ways.
Stars in Milky Way: 100-400 billion
Neurons in brain: ~100 billion (not more than the galaxy)
Woahhh, so actually we are using both brains all the time, this myth really famous and already brainwashed most of us hahaha. Great animations !!
The right brain is a term that represent a collection of attributes within
Imagine, things only exist if we see them? We don't have a brain. 😂
More neurons than suns in our galaxy? Does that really sound right
I couldn't stop laughing every time he said that they had half a brain.
They try to divide us right down to the 2 sides of our brains 😂
A hemispherectomy sounds horrific!
What was the purpose of leaving this in? 3:53
If the right brain left brain thing is just a myth, then why am I more creative, emotional, and visual than I am practical, logical, and auditory? Why do I use more creative/innovative logic than traditional/practical logic?
So which side can be removed to cure Alzheimer and Dementia?
According to the Brain, the Brain is the most wonderful thing ever created !
This is a Walmart brand ASAP Science
My right brain agree.
crocodiles are pretty scary, no cap
Wow what happened to the drawing board
So many myths out there 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
One thing! Just one thing! Please tell IT to me: WHY tf do I have so many fans even though no TH-camr is unprettier than I am? WORLDWIDE!!!! WHY??? Tell me, dear myth
AxxL Can you shut the fuck up.
The word "myth" simply means "sacred story." Myth does not equal "fiction."
It's just like politics; they stereotypically state that somebody is either left or right, when most people incorporate a mixture of both political spheres. Dealing with subject matter in a more pragmatic/versatile dynamic.
If you've been divided into 2 different segments then you've become "blindsided" and hence you're much more easily controlled by external forces who do see the whole picture.
It's not very intelligent to eliminate 50% of your thinking capacity, unless you wish to see yourself as being forever incomplete ?
The same for sexual identity; those who see themselves as being both male/female are likely to have a much healthier/holistic thinking capacity. Androgynous thinking makes you complete, hence you no longer need to leach energy from your partner, because you already incorporate both identities within yourself.
The Hemispherectomy is only possible if the child is under a certain age as the brain cells are not fixed yet and can still change their purpose.
So as adults, the distinction is set. Areas are set.
Which half got removed, though? Context is important, b/c if the right half got removed, a person could hypothetically function perfectly in the modern world, but without intuition and creativity (Safe for the small amounts that are likely present in the left brain - probably as a backup). Also, 'A study said' well studies can be wrong a study once said that benzos were not addictive and even today the idiot doctors think their patients are lying to them after 2 weeks of benzo w/d and they're still having symptoms, simply b/c the study disagreed with it. Science has it's place in the world, but is very left-brained in nature and doesn't look at the bigger picture. So of course the left-brained guy would say that 'science explains it all'. Again, it has it's place, but we are far too reliant on it and should also turn to people and their own personal experiences with things (again using the benzo example here) to solve problems. Interesting video, though.
Just have to look a strokes in different parts of the brain to see how different they are
It sounds like you're really saying “the left side/ right side distinction doesn’t mean what I thought it means, but actually what You thought it means” lol
The brain is great 👍🏻