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Busting the myths of the brain with neuroscientist Chantel Prat

WorkLife with Adam Grant

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Are You Telling Me I Have an Unbalanced Brain?

As our brains become more lopsided, assignment of jobs between hemispheres becomes more different and more systematic. Having this kind of redundancy in the brain is really excellent because you don't have what I've called spillover. In a lot of left-handed people with less experience reading, for instance, the right hemisphere is actively involved in language comprehension.

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