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>>10880021
Probably bait, but left and right brain hemispheres aren't about being more creative or more logical. It's more like (for a right-handed person) the left hemisphere handles things like verbal thinking / semantics and the right hemisphere has more of a role in visual recognition and timing tasks.
You can look into the Gazzaniga split-brain experiments for more information on which different brain processes tend to be lateralized to one hemisphere or the other.

>>10831648
>>10831648
With the Gazzaniga split brain (subjects whose corpus callosum was severed preventing normal communication between their brain hemispheres) experiments, one finding was how the right hemisphere is nonverbal (for these subjects and for most of the general population; some (mostly left-handed) people have reversed lateralization or more redundant functionality in both hemispheres) but could work in terms of imagery while the left hemisphere was both verbal and has a compulsive tendency to make up bullshit rationalizations to reconcile any gaps in the data it has access to (in this case, the gap would be in how it can see the choice the right hemisphere's respective arm has pointed to but not *why* that choice was made):
https://physics.weber.edu/carroll/honors/split_brain.htm
>The left brain dominates for language, speech, and problem solving
>The right brain dominates for visual-motor tasks
>1. Each hemisphere was presented a picture that related to one of four cards placed in front of the split-brain subject. The right hemisphere saw the picture on the left (a snow scene), and the left hemisphere saw the picture on the right (a chicken foot). Both hemispheres could see all of the cards.
>2. The left and right hemispheres easily picked the card that related to the picture it saw. The left hand pointed to the right hemisphere's choice, and the right hand pointed to the left hemisphere's choice.
>3. The patient was then asked why the left hand was pointing to the shovel. Only the left hemisphere can talk, and it did not know the answer because the decision to point to the shovel was made in the right hemisphere.
>4. Immediately the left hemisphere made up a story about what it could see --- the chicken. It said the right hemisphere chose the shovel to clean out a chicken shed.
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