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Sara Keating on Culture: Left-brained or right-brained? The correct answer is both

Creative Brain Week in Trinity College Dublin brings together the fields of art and science, culture and technology, to explore the neural connections between brain health and creativity

Eléonore Bayen and ‘My Brain Robbie’, part of Creative Brain Week at Trinity College Dublin, a festival exploring the neural connections between brain health and creativity

Are you a right-brain radical thinker or a left-brain logician? Do you tend towards visual or verbal learning? Are you emotional or rational, creative or analytical?

These are the black and white terms we often use to describe our brains and others’, when we think about our strengths and weaknesses: the dominance of one hemisphere of our body’s most complex organ.

This easy division, however, is a myth more than a scientific truth. Recent studies ...