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Hello,

I'm feeling a severe deficiency of left-brain capacity.
I would like to try something which can enhance my left brain functioning really well.
Any ideas?

If you want to improve your left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (which has to do with, amongst others, working memory and positive emotion), mindfulness training does that. Also Dual n Back training should be helpful for the working memory part.

I'm mostly interested in spatial memory and logical reasoning - especially analyzing large chunks of information, optimization and engeneerial reasoning.
I'm better at solving simple problems than most people, but I'm seriously lacking when it comes to complex reasoning. I can analyze small bits of data, but the larger chunks totally overwhelm me, well more than they would an average person.

 

Long-term memory retention is also an area that I feel needs much improving. I tend to forget everything that I don't use on a daily basis. I would like to be able to read a book and archive the information for when I need it.
It could be there somewhere actually, but not easily accessible due to brain inflammation (that is something I'm currently working on).

Edited by bernard, 07 July 2015 - 08:41 AM.

Ive always wondered if the side you sleep on affects hemisphere use. I know sleeping on your right side forces you to breath through the left nostril which stimulatez the right brain. Maybe other factors make it even more significant.

I've also read that writing with your left hand stimulates the right brain and vice versa, but is it really true?
And even if it is, what part of the brain does it stimulate, maybe it's just some simple motor control and nothing else.

Well, the logic is that the right brain connects to the left side of the body and the left brain to the right side.

Edited by sparkk51, 08 July 2015 - 07:00 PM.

Nearly all of the left-brained, right-brained stuff has as much basis in science than the "we use 10% of our brains."  I'm sure you could do the math on that one.

 

Same goes for learning styles, which is intimately connected with right/left blah blah hemispheric dominance.  Actually recent studies show that its growing pervasiveness in the K-12 education system is doing more harm than good to students on the whole.

 

Now this doesn't mean that lateralization does not exist.  It does.  But there is virtually no scientific connection to this and one side having greater density of neurons than the other, or having a specific set of cognitive strengths and weaknesses, indicating personality traits, or whatever else they make up along these lines.  In fact, when actually studied, the results indicated there is no truth to any of it at all.

 

A perfect example for this is logic.  We use both hemispheres for logic.  This of course includes math.  Between analyzing, problem solving, quantifying, pattern recognition, conceptualizing, language and everything in between that is part of the whole logic process, we rely on different regions of the brain.  Damage to either side consistently impairs math and other logic-related abilities.

 

Most of this stuff is blowing actual facts WAY out of proportion.

 

Still, it's fairly simple to find a way to strengthen a specific cognitive skill and : practice, practice, practice.

Edited by Duchykins, 08 July 2015 - 07:53 PM.

If you want to improve your left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (which has to do with, amongst others, working memory and positive emotion), mindfulness training does that. Also Dual n Back training should be helpful for the working memory part.

 

I thought that many years ago they revealed that Dual n back is not usefull for other areas except becoming better at Dual n back. I would like to know more. Are there new findings?

In my opinion, there is so much interlinked activity between various parts of the brain that talking in terms of right and left brain is a bit simplistic.