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Thread #104925   Message #2153938
Posted By: Janie
20-Sep-07 - 09:00 PM
Thread Name: BS: Right and Left- as They Influence Us
Subject: RE: BS: Right and Left- as They Influence Us
Right brain 7, left brain 6.

mg, our lower totals must mean there is a mass of undifferentiated gray matter between our right and left hemispheres. Either that, or a rather large pocket of air:^)

Ebbie, what I most note is the caveat at the end of the article.

I would expect song writers (a la Peace), and composers to be significantly more right-brained than left-brained. I would expect that the many musicians who do not 'create' their own lyrics and music (or at least, not much) to draw more evenly from both hemispheres. Think of the number of scientists, engineers and mathematicians who play musical instruments. Regarding mathematicians, the manipulation of hard data and arithmatic aspects of math are pretty exclusively in the domain of the left brain. However, the best and most brilliant of theorists in math and the many branches of physics also rely heavily on insight and intuition, which are firmly seated in the right brain. (would they have scores like Right Brain 2000, Left Brain 2050?)

Janie

Janie