Brain hemisphere

[Arioch]

This test should tell how Left or right brained you are and if your more of a visual or auditory learner

http://www.rcw.bc.ca/test/personality.html

I'm curious to see what percentages everyone will get and if their will be any correlation between the results

[Boneca]

Can't do it - I can't run .exe files on my Mac.

But since there are a bazillion other similar tests out there and I'm interested in stuff like this, I can tell you that I use right and left hemispheres about equally much, and I seem to be a combination of visual/spatial and sequential auditory learner.
I don't know if you want me to vote without taking the test, but I'd be "equal everywhere".

[Arioch]

Can't do it - I can't run .exe files on my Mac.

But since there are a bazillion other similar tests out there and I'm interested in stuff like this, I can tell you that I use right and left hemispheres about equally much, and I seem to be a combination of visual/spatial and sequential auditory learner.
I don't know if you want me to vote without taking the test, but I'd be "equal everywhere".

Sure. It's just a pity we wouldn't have any percentages (which I forgot to put myself.. oops).

Anyway vote anyway.

I have a suspicion that others might have trouble with the test anyway. Some people using internet explorer havn't been able to get the file working.

[bmw318tiChic]

Left hemisphere, auditory.

Left 57.1%
Right 42.9%
Auditory 58.8%
Visual 41.2%

[Utopmk]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v315/yurduhzeez3/brain.jpg

I think i took this test several years ago on an old 3.1. Has this thing been around a while?

[nBT]

it wont run. my windows tells me it a 16 bit app. im using firefox

[Bluehaze]

43.8 % - Auditory
56.3% - Visual
45.5% - Left
54.5% - Right

You exhibit an even balance between left- and right-hemisphere dominance and a slight preference for visual over auditory processing. With a score this balanced, it is likely that you would have slightly different results each time you completed this self-assessment quiz.

You are a well-rounded person, distinctly individualistic and artistic, an active and multidimensional learner. At the same time, you are logical and disciplined, can operate well within an organization, and are sensitive towards others without losing objectivity. You are organized and goal-directed. Although a "thinking" individual, you "take in" entire situations readily and can act on intuition.

You sometimes tend to vacillate in your learning styles. Learning might take you longer than someone with equal intellect, but you will tend to be more thorough and retain the material longer than those other individuals. You will alternate between logic and impulse. This vacillation will not normally be intentional or deliberate, so you may experience anxiety in situations where you are not certain which aspect of yourself will be called on.

With a slight preference for visual processing, you tend to be encompassing in your perceptions, process along multidimensional paths and be active in your attacking of situations or learning.

Overall, you should feel content with your life and yourself. You are, perhaps, a little too critical of yourself -- and of others -- while maintaining an "openness" which tempers that tendency. Indecisiveness is a problem and your creativity may not be in keeping with you potential. Being a pragmatist, you downplay this aspect of yourself and focus on the more immediate, obvious and the more functional.

[Phenylethylene]

Here is a web version: http://www.mindmedia.com/brainworks/profiler

I get a different result every time, though my first was the same as Bluehaze's and seems to describe me best. /shrug.

[jyakulis]

Here is a web version: http://www.mindmedia.com/brainworks/profiler

I get a different result every time, though my first was the same as Bluehaze's and seems to describe me best. /shrug.


got the same exact as bluehaze too but right in the center....

[Edmond Zedo]

it wont run. my windows tells me it a 16 bit app. im using firefox
wtg then.

I guessed for the poll, not realizing there was a test. Do I have to shut off my Hi-Fi playing Poe first? And should I wait until the meth and opium wears off? (jk re psychoactives, for now)

I took it, and actually got Left/Auditory, more auditory than left, but I didn't like the test structure. Don't think it's worth a schnit.

[CreativeChaos]

I didn't place my scores in the poll, since I am INFP, but these are my results. I have taken a test similar to this one and came out the same way. Equally "balanced".

Left Brain 47%
Right Brain 52.2%
Auditory 50%
Visual 50%

You are one of those rare individuals who are perfectly "balanced in both your hemispheric tendencies and your sensory learning preferences. However, there is both good news and bad news.

A problem with hemispheric balance is that you will tend to feel more conflict than someone who has a clearly extablished dominance. At times the conflict will be tetween what you feel and what you think but will also involve how you attack problems and how you perceive information. Details which will seem important to the right hemisphere will be discounted by the left and vice versa, which can present a hindrance to learning efficiently.

In the same vain, you may have problem with organization. You might organize your time and/or space only to feel the need to reorganize five to ten weeks later.

On the positive side, you bring resources to problem-solving that others may not have. You can perceive the "big picture" and the essential details simultaneously and maintain the cognitive perspective required. You possess sufficient verbal skills to translate your intuition into a form which can be understood by others while still being able to access ideas and concepts which do not lend themselves to language.

Your balanced nature might lead you to second-guess yourself in artistic endeavors, losing some of the fluidity, spontaneity and creativity that otherwise would be yours.

With your balanced sensory styles, you process data alternately, at times visually and other times auditorially. This usage of seperate memories may cause you to require more time to integrate information or re-access it. When presented with situations which force purely visual or purely auditory learning, increased anxiety is likely and your learning efficiency will decrease.

Your greatest benefit is that you can succeed in multiple fields due to the great plasticity and flexibility you possess.

[Elro]

I took it three times. First time I got an outrageously high visual score (93.3%) and left-hemisphere. Next two times there were more realistic visual scores and alternating between right and left hemispheres. I voted visual and equal hemisphere since it was near the border, but I think I lean left.

Interesting program.

[CreativeChaos]

I took it four more times, and scored left brained and descriptions that didn't fit at all. The last two times I took it and came up with Visually dominant 86% and Right Brained 56%. This personality profile fits.


Cindy, you are somewhat right-hemisphere dominant and have a strong visual preference, a blend of characteristics which typically apply to persons with an "artistic" temperament.

In all likelihood, you naturally act in the way that people have come to expect artists to act. With your dominant visual learning style you are active and seeking, working to absorb all of the facets of your environment. Your mind rarely rests, for even when you are not scouring the environment you are turning your searchlight on your own internal processes.

You are intense! In continually processing the data as you do on a multidimensional level, you spend little of your time in reflection -- or sometimes in social niceties. There is a high probability that you are "out of check" -- though not out of control -- sometimes, swept away by the feelings of the moment. You are one of those individuals that may well attempt to assemble a complex piece of equipment without reading the directions or following a sequence, though you might look at the diagram. Sequencing your own behavior is problematic at times.

You are rarely reflective about yourself or your motivations. You know when things are right because you feel it, you intuit as automatically as you breathe. With others, you tend to "go with your guts," not needing rules or expectations to govern your friendships.

You absorb material rapidly and randomly, it is filed "helter skelter" internally. Listening or learning from materials presented in a purely verbal fashion is not your "strong suit" and your performance in situations designed for left-hemisphere dominant persons will not always measure up to the expectations of others. If you have particular learning needs, it is to sequence material and remain focused while you are processing, to develop "structuring" techniques, and to become more efficient with your spontaneity and creativity.


I think the test is bizzare. What does your color preference have to do with anything? I agree with EZ that it is bogus. I studied every question on a test like this before and found the reasoning to be bizzare. How in the world did they come up with these questions and decide your left or right brained? Some I can see the reasoning others are totally of the wall.

But then I'm an INFP and I AM your typical rightbrained visual artist type. This is what I would have guessed.

[Edmond Zedo]

I do have a feeling as to what they're getting at. A shit-ton of those questions were asking whether you were paying attention to the words themselves or the meanings. Well, I was paying attention to both, so I had to flip a mental coin each time. Bogus indeed.

[Phenylethylene]

I took it 3 times and I could have flipped a coin for 2 of the answers on nearly every question, so the results seem a bit arbitrary for me. From experience, I think I am slightly "left-brained" and know that I take in information much better visually than with serial methods, like reading or listening. It also takes me some thought to figure out how to output serially, ie writing or speaking.

[Vagabond]

Equal hemisphere dominant, visual learner.

I took the test few times and my dominant hemisphere results kept changing from slightly right to slightly left dominant; I kept scoring as a visual learner though.

Btw, I hate these "which of the following three makes sense" questions... ALL of them did in some way...


I do have a feeling as to what they're getting at. A shit-ton of those questions were asking whether you were paying attention to the words themselves or the meanings. Well, I was paying attention to both, so I had to flip a mental coin each time. Bogus indeed. Yep, that too...

[CreativeChaos]

Yeah! I was catching that they were doing that too. So, I purposely answered what I figured was "left-visual" etc. and kept reading the personality profiles. I have been through and through a thorough analysis of a test longer and similar to this and some of the stuff makes sense and some of it is totally off the wall, like I said.

[MasterMerk]

I got left brain, visual.

[Eileen]

Strongly left brain, equal auditory and visual--which I think happens to be true.

Definitely some flaws with the test (cultural bias much?) but very interesting to me (note the INFJ reaction: This is useful for me because I can apply this information when communicating to my students!!). I'm going to get Morgan to take it later.

This is the little personal evaluation bit:



Eileen, you are strongly left-hemisphere dominant, with a balanced preference for auditory and visual inputs, a productive combination of traits.

The preeminnence of your left hemisphwere implies that you are organized, structured, and self-monitoring. You always start analyzing situations and problems bylooking at details and then attempt to categorize those details in a very systematic way. You persevere on a theme.

Because of your balance between auditory and visual approaches, you can organize details into a pattern or you can arrange them sequentially so that you have at hand at least two alternatives which dimensionalize your organization and thouroughness.

There is no question that you enjoy a sense of control and feel that planning is important. Everything must be definite since improvisation is less easy for you. You can be reflective at times and active at others, focus on the visual aspects at some times and on the audiotry qualities at others. You have the capacity to simulaneously process a great deal of information and then your tendency is to organize and categorize it as the most convenient mode of accessing it again in the future.

Your balance of sensory preferences tends to make you more perceptive thanmost, and your ability to organize information adds to your productive processing capabililties.

[Garyincinci]

I took it, and actually got Left/Auditory, more auditory than left, but I didn't like the test structure. Don't think it's worth a schnit.Couldn't agree more. The first question I got told me it was going to be crap.

"When presented with a ? and ! what do you think of?"

One set of options were two words, one set of options was two written symbols and the third option was "Neither". I chose neither, so they assume it means equal balance. But when I think of ? I "see" myself pondering some difficult question and when I think of ! I "see" myself arriving at the answer...a point of excitement. Clearly visual...but hey who am I to argue with a web test :)

[Eileen]

One set of options were two words, one set of options was two written symbols and the third option was "Neither". I chose neither, so they assume it means equal balance.


I seem to recall that answer the question as "neither" indicated left brain tendencies, actually! I don't mean to defend the test because I don't think it was spectacularly arranged, but did you go through and look at the test questions after you responded? You could see what each answer indicated.

[Garyincinci]

I did, I don't remember exactly what Neither indicated except that it was not even close.

[cuspuser]

i agree with those who have said that they could've chosen any of the three answers, just about any of the questions i saw i recognized the pattern that they were going for ... but i generally prefered the answer that was left-brained ... and there were a couple of the right brain answers i didn't recognize when going through the test ... like 2 out of 20 that i didn't see the pattern for ... so i wound up just chosing the pattern i liked most ... perhaps the preference shows you what "brained" you are ... but it does seem fishy.

by the by ... 67%left, 50/50 learning.

[booyalab]

I got Left brain dominant, visual learner. The description made a lot of sense to me. Like Zedo said, I could have flipped a mental coin if I wanted to. But I trusted my first impulse to choose the more mathematical one (which I always noticed instantaneously), and I think the description is more true of me than if I had alternated kinds of answers for each question. (I usually alternate and it comes out as being equally dominant in both sides) I guess this means I can use my right brain well too, but it is slightly easier and more natural to use my left...and I definitely agree with the visual aspect. It said I can often "see" where I'm going and "see" what other people are going to say before they say it, so that's why I don't like "roundabout language". (see all of my posts in the hated expressions thread)

[mgb]

I was right brain and auditory. Last time I was left brained, but auditory both times. How do they test that on a silent test?

[booyalab]

I was right brain and auditory. Last time I was left brained, but auditory both times. How do they test that on a silent test?

Verbal learning and auditory learning go hand in hand. Let me give you an example of how the differences between visual learning and auditory learning can be shown silently. When a group of (mixed gender)people are asked to only write the letters in the alphabet that rhyme with "Bee", and then to only write the letters in the alphabet that have rounded parts....the women do the first part faster than the men, and the men do the second part faster than the women (on average) because women tend to be auditory learners and men tend to be visual learners. So the answers you chose had a more verbal bent, whereas mine had a more spatial bent

[Bugeater]

50% auditory
50% visual
52.4% left
47.6% right

[PonderBee]

e, you are mildly left-hemisphere dominant while showing a slight preference for auditory processing. This overall combination seems to indicate a well-working blend of logic and judgment and organization, with sufficient intuition, perception and creativity to balance that dominance
................. You know peoples - once upon a time I thought I was special! This blurb holds a lot of truths in my case..........

You will at times experience conflict between how you feel and what you think which will generally be resolved in favor of what you think. You will find yourself interested in the practical applications of whatever material you have learned or whatever situation you face and will retain the ability to refine whatever knowledge you possess or aspects of whatever position you are in.

By and large, you will orient yourself toward intellectual activities and structure. Though not rigid, you will schedule yourself, plan, and focus on routine and continuity of operations, rather than on changes and disruptions

When changes or disruptions occur, you are likely to consider first how to ensure that such disruptions do The same balance is reflected in your sensory preference. You will tend to be reflective and measured in your interaction style. For the most part, you will be considered objective without being cold and goal-oriented while retaining the capacity to listen to others.

Preferentially you learn by listening and maintaining significant internal dialogues with yourself. Nevertheless, you have sufficient visualization capabilities to benefit from using graphs, charts, doodles, or even body movement to enhance your comprehension and memory.

To the extent that you are even implicitly aware of your hemispheric dominance and sensory style, you will feel most comfortable in those arenas which emphasize verbal skills and logic. Teaching, law, and science are those that stand out among the professions, along with technical sales and management.

[Architectonic]

Each time I took the test, my results varied significantly. Although I did have more of a preference for visual learning...

[callie]

I wanted to do the test but my computer refuses to open the file... MS-DOS application pbl!!!??? what's that? What should i do? (i have a new computer though!)

[Philo]

This was amusing.


Auditory : 64%
Visual : 35%
Left : 55%
Right : 45%

Ok, I buy the Left-Right bias, but on other tests I've always scored high on the spatial/visual scale, so the results in that respect are a bit confusing.


you are mildly left-hemisphere dominant while showing a slight preference for auditory processing. This overall combination seems to indicate a well-working blend of logic and judgment and organization, with sufficient intuition, perception and creativity to balance that dominance.

You will at times experience conflict between how you feel and what you think which will generally be resolved in favor of what you think. You will find yourself interested in the practical applications of whatever material you have learned or whatever situation you face and will retain the ability to refine whatever knowledge you possess or aspects of whatever position you are in.

By and large, you will orient yourself toward intellectual activities and structure. Though not rigid, you will schedule yourself, plan, and focus on routine and continuity of operations, rather than on changes and disruptions

When changes or disruptions occur, you are likely to consider first how to ensure that such disruptions do The same balance is reflected in your sensory preference. You will tend to be reflective and measured in your interaction style. For the most part, you will be considered objective without being cold and goal-oriented while retaining the capacity to listen to others.

Preferentially you learn by listening and maintaining significant internal dialogues with yourself. Nevertheless, you have sufficient visualization capabilities to benefit from using graphs, charts, doodles, or even body movement to enhance your comprehension and memory.

To the extent that you are even implicitly aware of your hemispheric dominance and sensory style, you will feel most comfortable in those arenas which emphasize verbal skills and logic. Teaching, law, and science are those that stand out among the professions, along with technical sales and management.

Technical sales & management? :rofl:

[callie]

how did you managed to do it? my computer closes it each time!!???

[Philo]

I used the web one Phenyl mentioned on the first page.

[callie]

Yes, i did too!!! But my computer downloads the file but does not want to open it!!!!!!!

[Architectonic]

Philo is talking about this link:

http://www.mindmedia.com/brainworks/profiler

[Winterpark]

Auditory : 47%
Visual : 52%
Left : 66%
Right : 33%



I am not falling for this crap. By answering 20 stupid questions you cannot know shit about your brain. I mean it's funny that you even get a percentage of the usage of your hemispheres. I mean, come on.

:) Ok, it is not that bad but it is just not valuable enough.

But you already know all of this.

[April]

left: 70%
right: 30%
auditory: 44.4%
visual: 55.6%

Hmm... that's interesting considering I'm better at English and Art than the Sciences and Mathematics (although I'm good at them, too). Does anybody have any insight as to why I'm not more right-brained? Heh.

[misutii]

on the dl i got
left/right 50%
auditory 24%
visual 76%

on the other link
Auditory : 31%
Visual : 68%
Left : 45%
Right : 55%

so basically i'm visual and equal right/left

[melancholeric]

I keep getting inconstistent results ( and I'm not voting ), but I've learned a lot about my brain with this. How to switch between left and right hemisphere, and the "artistic" and "analytical" modes. If this test is in any way reliable, it seems I can consciously switch those. Or maybe I am just manipulating the results.

And todays results were:
Auditory : 35%
Visual : 64%
Left : 55%
Right : 44%