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Busting the myths of the brain with neuroscientist Chantel Prat

ReThinking

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Is It Better to Understand Left Hemisphere Dominance in Terms of Interpretation?

I think it's in those sleepy moments, you know, where your hemispheres are waking up. You can catch that kind of experimentation happening in your brain. I guess this also sheds some light on why sometimes people find it annoying that I have to analyze the lyric to every song instead of just enjoying the music. If we were talking about a language system in the left hemisphere, it's building sounds into words and words into utterances; what does Adam Grant think that this song means? And so you could see how this leads to creativity or making broader connections between more distantly related concepts.

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