Right Brain vs. Left Brain

Find out if you're a left brain dominant or right brain dominant here or here. Being a right brain or left brain dominant person does not mean you're good or bad. It just shows how your brain processes information. Knowing this means we can improve the way we do our thinking and learning by strengthening our less dominant side.

The left brain is associated with verbal, logical, and analytical thinking. It excels in naming and categorizing things, symbolic abstraction, speech, reading, writing, arithmetic. The left brain is very linear: it places things in sequential order. We have been traditionally taught to master the 3 R's: reading, writing and arithmetic -- the domain and strength of the left brain.



The right brain, on the other hand, functions in a non-verbal manner and excels in visual, spatial, perceptual, and intuitive information. For the right brain, processing happens very quickly and the style of processing is nonlinear and non sequential. The right brain looks at the whole picture and quickly seeks to determine the spatial relationships of all the parts as they relate to the whole. The right brain has been associated with the realm of creativity.



Source: Brain Differences : Creativity and the Right Side of the Brain

The basic right and left brain characteristics are also explained here. I responded as a right brained person to 14 questions and left brained person to 5 questions. According to the Hemispheric Dominance test, I use my right brain the most. My complete test result is here.