Tuesday, 18 September 2018
There’s No Such Thing as a "Left-Brained" or "Right-Brained" Personality
In an earlier post in this blog, I addressed the widespread but mistaken idea that some people are more “left-brained” while others are more “right-brained”, and that the former are more rational while the latter are more creative. No evidence for this idea was found in a study on brain connectivity in over 1000 individuals, reported in the article “An Evaluation of the Left-Brain vs. Right-Brain Hypothesis with Resting State Functional Connectivity Magnetic Resonance Imaging”, published in August 2013 in the journal Plos One. (more…)
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Tuesday, 4 September 2018
Cortical Gradients (bis)
As promised in my last post, I’m going to talk a bit more today about an article entitled “Large-Scale Gradients in Human Cortical Organization” that appeared in the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences (TiCS) in January 2018,
In that last post, I described how the gradient from the more unimodal parts of the cortex (the primary sensory areas) to the more multimodal parts (the more associative ones) provides insight into the organization of large functional networks in the brain, such as the default mode network, which lies at multimodal end of this gradient. (more…)
