Re:Right brain vs Left brain
by whacked_new on Thursday October 18, 2007 @04:51PM
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optic_nerve
Nerves of each eye are wired to both left and right brains. Hence there is no order of processing information based on which field of view it is presented in.
Curious discussion about hemispheric dominance; I never really thought about it. I guess a better term is "lateralization."
But there is absolutely no conclusive evidence to suggest this is true, and to show these kinds of things on The Daily Telegraph is a pretty big disservice to teaching people about neuroscience, I think.
This doesn't mean there aren't differences in the hemispheres, but just that visual tricks like this are probably not accurate at all for determining hemisphere dominance (if such a thing exists).