Saturday, October 06, 2007

Left-Right Brain Hemisphere Dominance Quiz

To follow on yesterday's visual Right-Left Brain test, here's a verbal test of 18 yes/no questions that will yield a general table of attributes based on your answers. The link below the table leads to a seemingly pretty faithful overview of the differences between cognitive preference and how we assimilate info through that perception filter. My results...
Which Side Do You Use?

You responded as a right brained person to 12 questions, and you responded as a left brained person to 6 questions.

Type of Cognitive Processing

Brief Description

HolisticProcessing information from whole to part; sees the big picture first, not the details.
Random Processing information with out priority, jumps from one task to another.
Concrete Processes things that can be seen, or touched - real objects.
IntuitiveProcesses information based on whether or not it feels right - know answer but not sure how it was derived.
NonverbalProcesses thought as illustrations.
Fantasy-Oriented Processes information with creativity; less focus on rules and regulations

Now, Compare your left brain to your right brain.
Again, your mileage may vary, and the test presenters are offering mind improvement tapes based on Binaural beats. (That's the effort to resonate with frequencies of particular brain waves in order to enhance performance in the activities associated within certain higher or lower ranges - around 10Hz is relaxation, greater than 50 Hz seems to parallel higher neurological functions like perception and complex problem work.) I'm not associated in any way with the linked group or with beats. I'm just interested in why our short-term-centered Limbic centers grab the steering wheel so often in business and political situations and, how to get the wheel back in the wisest hands.

3 Comments:

At 10/06/2007 4:17 PM, Blogger Mike said...

11-7 the same way (big surprise, eh?).

On your question, emotionally-charged situations trip the limbic non-maskable interrupt, which then runs our deepest-ingrained gut-level responses (usually fear-based) that we've built up over years. These processes run lots faster than the consciously-based rational thinking, which later catches up with something like "what was I thinking?"

 
At 10/06/2007 11:05 PM, Blogger fouro said...

I read that once in a book by a dude named Clemens. He was far too facetious to be taken seriously.

 
At 10/08/2007 10:54 AM, Blogger Mike said...

Sam was one astute dude...

 

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