Left/Right
I was looking up jigsaw puzzle exchanges (yes, they do exist) and saw in the info on one of the sites that jigsaw puzzles are supposed to be good for the brain. Makes sense to me so I Googled it and found something about how jigsaw puzzles exercise both the left and right hemispheres of our brains. Sounds good to me. I then remembered something about how the “left/right brained people thing” was a myth and Googled that. Here’s one of the more recent articles written about it.
It’s easy to lump people into buckets of left-brained and right-brained but the science just doesn’t back up the assumption. Creative people use both hemispheres of their brains the same as those who are analytical. I feel like the left/right brain thing leads to the insinuation that people can’t be both creative and analytical which is silly. It’d be like someone who wrote music being unable to analyze their songs and understand their mediocrity. Hm. Perhaps that sort of insight just takes time. :)
http://thescienceexplorer.com/brain-and-body/left-brained-vs-right-brained-myth-debunked
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