Right-Brain Duality Of The Mind

If you were ever curious about why you think and act the way you do, why you are cold and calculated or intuitive and slightly disorganized, it is said to be contributed to which side of the brain an individual favors. Basically, the theory of left-brain or right-brain dominance states that each side of the brain controls different types of thinking. People are said to prefer one type of thinking over the other. There are several varieties of quizzes supporting this theory circulating the world wide web. Do these claims have any scientific merit? Well according to scientists, it is just one big myth. Are you realistic, rational and logical? Do you consider yourself emotional, spontaneous and creative? The theory of left-brain or right-brain
The research showed damage to the patient’s left temporal lobe, therefore speech is controlled by the left side of the brain. In 1844, Arthur Ladbroke Wigan published a book entitled “A New View of Insanity: Duality of the Mind”. In this book, he describes the two brain hemispheres as independent parts having an independent will and way of thinking. This notion became very popular and even found its way into popular culture as with Robert Louis Stevenson’s famous story “The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” (1886), which explores the idea of a cultured left hemisphere in contrast to an emotional right hemisphere, that is primitive and easily out of control. In the 1960s, the final evidence that the "language center" in the brain was located in the left hemisphere, came from the famous studies carried out by Roger Sperry and his colleagues. There was no other cure for people who suffered from a special kind of epilepsy other than cutting off the connection, corpus callosum, between the two hemispheres. The studies demonstrated that the left and right hemispheres are specialized in different