Lateralization of brain function

I found this image via ilike. Apparently if you see the dancer moving clockwise you are “right brained” and if the dancer appears to be rotating counter-clockwise then you are “left brained”. I initially decided it absolutely must be rotating clockwise, but when I closed my eyes and looked again it was going counter-clockwise. I put in some time on wikipedia and read that the crap I’ve heard regarding being one or the other and what that means is mostly garbage, kind of like horoscopes!

It is important to note that—while functions are indeed lateralized—these lateralizations are trends and do not apply to every person in every case. Short of having undergone a hemispherectomy (the removal of an entire cerebral hemisphere) there are no “left-brained only” or “right-brained only” people.

Moving on, this has nothing to do with lefts and rights, but brains. I found these great and numerous illustrations of “brain maps”. They are by a guy named Dr. Alesha Sivartha, taken from ‘The Book of Life: The Spiritual and Physical Constitution of Man’. Now I haven’t thoroughly read this or anything really, I’m more a skimmer and a take what I wanter (that’s why I love wikipedia), but the drawings are NEAT.