'Creative right brain’ myth

‘Creative right brain’ myth debunked

March 7, 2012 by Amara D. Angelica

 
Yet another brain myth bites the dust, joining “we only use 10 percent of our brain,” and other pseudoscience nonsense that tries to cram people in nice neat boxes.

The left hemisphere of your brain, thought to be the logic and math portion, actually plays a critical role in creative thinking, University of Southern California (USC) researchers have found, at least for visual creative tasks (and musical, as previously found).

“We need both hemispheres for creative processing,” said.Lisa Aziz-Zadeh, assistant professor of neuroscience.

The research team used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to scan the brains of architecture students, who tend to be visually creative./.../