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Are right-brained people really more creative? Here’s what the science really tells us

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par Sarah Hellewell, Senior Research Fellow, The Perron Institute for Neurological and Translational Science, and Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University

Are you logical, detail-oriented or good with numbers? You must be “left-brained”.

Creative, artistic and intuitive? You must be “right-brained”.

Personality quizzes and career advice passed down through generations have many of us thinking we’re powered by one side of our brain that dominates our thinking style and explains our personality.

But is this the truth or fiction? And how did this idea come about?

To find out, we need to go back more than 150 years.

Back to the 19th century

The science behind this idea goes all the…

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