English lovers: are you left-brained or right-brained?

Аs a neuroscientist, I'd like to make it clear that there is some scientific base behind this popular psychology phenomenon, however it has been awfully commercialised and this stuff they tell you about on popular websites or near the horoscopes column of your women magazine is very very divorced from real science. I guess it's a good chance to make a quick buck before people catch on that it's not real science. Most people tend to accept these findings because they're something newish and they don't really think much about it, but I think this will change soon, provided scientific knowledge doesn't mushroom or something.

<<Аs a neuroscientist, I'd like to make it clear that THERE IS SOME SCIENTIFIC BASE behind this popular psychology phenomenon, however it has been AWFULLY COMMERCIALISED and this stuff they tell you about on popular websites>>

(chuckle) In other words, the truth is--as so often the case--somewhere in the middle?

Bryn Mawr.........an educational establishment for girls in the USA I have discovered. I wonder how many of those American girls on the register at that college know what the name actually means, or even where the name originates? And I'd like to bet my next salary cheque that one one single one of them pronounces it correctly either!

↑ I never knew the meaning of the term--or its origin--until I researched it on the Internet. I have known for years, however, its reputation as a fine, upstanding college for women--a college that's highly respected in the States.

On an unrelated note, I think it curious that women's colleges are so revered, while colleges for men don't even seem to exist--at least in the States.

<<On an unrelated note, I think it curious that women's colleges are so revered, while colleges for men don't even seem to exist--at least in the States.>>

That's because most of the reputable men's colleges in the US-- Georgetown, Princeton, Yale, Wesleyan, Harvard, etc.-- went co-ed in the late '60s thru the '70s, while some of women's colleges continued to thrive as strictly women's colleges.

There is no such thing as right/left brained. People tend to use all o f their brain. This dispute can move to left/right dominance of the brain for language, but evidence has suggested that the majority of people have language centers situated in the left hemisphere and may have secondary or tertiary language centers in the right hemisphere. There are only isolated cases in which the main language centers are located in the right hemisphere.And this left/right hemisphere thing has nothing to do with right/left handedness