# Which side of your brain is more dominant, the right or left? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 21, 2016, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-side-of-your-brain-is-more-dominant-the-right-or-left/755286 "2016-05-21T05:23:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-side-of-your-brain-is-more-dominant-the-right-or-left/755286/21 "2016-05-24T02:43:53Z")
Any discussion of “brainedness” on the internet is 99% bs by people unqualified to comment. People aren’t dominant for a majority of functions in opposite fashions. > [@spamforbrains](#): > > If that actually did measure left/right brain, how come it looks the same when you cover the left eye or the right eye? I see it switching back and forth out of either eye. If it was a left/right brain thing, it should only move one way per eye, right? Each eye sends input to both sides of the brain. The left half of the visual FIELD goes to the right side of the brain and vice versa. But there is a huge overlap between what the individual eyes see. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-side-of-your-brain-is-more-dominant-the-right-or-left/755286/22 "2016-05-24T02:46:01Z")
Clockwise or counterclockwise from what assumed viewpoint? Looking down from above or looking up from below? Or is this telling me something _else_ about how my brain works? ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-side-of-your-brain-is-more-dominant-the-right-or-left/755286/23 "2016-05-24T03:32:27Z")
Growing up, I was always proud to say that lefthanded people are in their right mind. Get it? We’re the creative ones, so we’re right brained. Sorry to burst everyone’s bubble, but science says that the brain dominance thing is a [myth](http://www.livescience.com/39373-left-brain-right-brain-myth.html). > [@](#): > > There is a misconception that everything to do with being analytical is confined to one side of the brain, and everything to do with being creative is confined to the opposite side, Anderson said. In fact, it is the connections among all brain regions that enable humans to engage in both creativity and analytical thinking. “It is not the case that the left hemisphere is associated with logic or reasoning more than the right,” Anderson told LiveScience. “Also, creativity is no more processed in the right hemisphere than the left.”… > > The myth of people being either “left-brained” or “right-brained” might have arisen from the Nobel Prize-winning research of Roger Sperry, which was done in the 1960s. Sperry studied patients with epilepsy, who were treated with a surgical procedure that cut the brain along a structure called the corpus callosum. Because the corpus callosum connects the two hemispheres of the brain, the left and right sides of these patients’ brains could no longer communicate. Sperry and other researchers, through a series of clever studies, determined which parts, or sides, of the brain were involved in language, math, drawing and other functions in these patients. But then popular-level psychology enthusiasts ran with this idea, creating the notion that personalities and other human attributes are determined by having one side of the brain dominate the other. The neuroscience community never bought into this notion, Anderson said, and now we have evidence from more than 1,000 brain scans showing absolutely no signs of left or right dominance… (Oh…I can see the girl spinning both ways. Freaky.) ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-side-of-your-brain-is-more-dominant-the-right-or-left/755286/24 "2016-05-24T18:20:18Z")
What we need to do is to test this on someone with a [split brain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain). ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-side-of-your-brain-is-more-dominant-the-right-or-left/755286/25 "2016-05-24T18:46:30Z")
Umm…if I use my right eye she spins counter-clock, and if I use my left eye she spins clock. If I use both eyes she spins clock, but it takes almost no effort to get her to spin the other way. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-side-of-your-brain-is-more-dominant-the-right-or-left/755286/26 "2016-05-24T19:30:27Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Umm…if I use my right eye she spins counter-clock, and if I use my left eye she spins clock. Really? Switching eyes has no effect for me. ---
**Author:** ![WildBlueYonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2016, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-side-of-your-brain-is-more-dominant-the-right-or-left/755286/27 "2016-06-01T13:39:59Z")
I thought it was hilarious to watch her spin clockwise and then switch the other way… ---
**Author:** ![Headrush042](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Headrush042](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Headrush042)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2016, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-side-of-your-brain-is-more-dominant-the-right-or-left/755286/28 "2016-06-01T14:13:54Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > What we need to do is to test this on someone with a [split brain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain). I just watched a freaky (but awesome) video on split brains this morning: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfYbgdo8e-8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfYbgdo8e-8) ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2016, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-side-of-your-brain-is-more-dominant-the-right-or-left/755286/29 "2016-06-01T21:27:27Z")
So its clockwise which makes me right-brained, and I google right-brain to see what kind of person that makes me. After filtering out all the clickbait crap, I find a couple of concise lists, and they are completely wrong. About 20% of the right-brain characteristics apply to me. So much for today’s adventure in bullshitland. Nice rack on the dacner, though, so the exercise wasn’t a complete waste. For what its worh, her lifted foot seems to go to the right higher on her stationary leg than going left, which would mean she is turning clockwise, according to perspective. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-side-of-your-brain-is-more-dominant-the-right-or-left/755286.md?page=1)