Right-brain vs. left-brain thinking is often discussed in psychology. Everybody uses both thinking types to some degree, but nearly everyone tends to have one or the other as a primary thinking style.

The idea that people are either “left-brained” and analytical or “right-brained” and creative has become deeply embedded in popular culture. Yet decades of neuroscience research show that this simple ...

10.6 percent of people are left-handed, and while handedness is first and foremost a motor preference, there are many ideas about other abilities or preferences that handedness may or may not affect.