On the basis of Sperry's research, some researchers further put forward that the left brain has a left brain and the right brain has a right brain. Because traditional western culture has always attached importance to the part where the left brain is in charge of rationality, while ignoring the part where the right brain is in charge of nonverbal rationality, the rationality of the right brain is of special significance to the current development of education, science and culture. The right brain has creativity, intuitive thinking, predictive ability and enterprising spirit that the left brain does not have.
Herman, president of the American Whole Brain Research Association and Ph.D. in physics and musicology at Cornell University, is a scholar who advocates developing the magic power of the right brain. He believes that for everyone, due to genetic, environmental, educational and other factors, the left brain and the ancient brain are not "evenly matched." Chest may be dominant on one side and subordinate on the other, which determines a person's way of thinking, thinking habits, hobbies and specialties. Because the traditional examination method and personnel system attach importance to left-brain rationality, most science and engineering students, engineers, accountants and enterprise managers are left-brain supervisors at present. If these people do not pay attention to developing their right brain rationality, they will tend to be conservative, lacking imagination and innovative spirit.
American behaviorist Gosbid pointed out in the Guide to Whole Brain Research published by 1983: Take market price estimation as an example, people with left brain dominance are used to estimating future price changes by means of analysis, statistics and reasoning, and this prediction can only be correct if the future market repeats the past market changes. In fact, this kind of situation rarely happens. People dominated by the right brain are different. They are imaginative and can speculate intuitively, and they often achieve unexpected success, enabling enterprises to beat their competitors in the economic situation with fluctuating market.
So, what are the magical powers of the right brain? Professor Agger of the University of Texas pointed out that the most important contribution of the right brain is creative thinking. The right brain does not stick to local analysis, but focuses on the overall situation, boldly guesses, jumps forward and draws intuitive conclusions. This kind of intuitive thinking can often go beyond the existing intelligence information and predict the future development trend. In today's rapidly changing era, the creative intuitive thinking of the right brain has become particularly important for our survival. Professor Agger investigated the managers of 2000 successful big companies in the United States and found that most of them have good right-brain intuitive thinking ability. In some people, intuitive thinking even becomes a kind of predictive ability, which enables them to predict future changes and help enterprises make important decisions.
The right brain magic theory is all the rage in America, especially in the business world. Many famous companies, such as General Electric Company, International Business Machines Company, Shell Company and Goodyear Company, are scrambling to invite behavioral scientists to hold seminars for managers to develop right-brain rationality, hoping that the magic of right-brain can bring economic benefits to enterprises. However, in academic circles, many researchers are skeptical about the theory of right brain power.
Scott, director of the Information System Research Center of the University of Texas, used brain waves to study the difference between left-brain advantage and right-brain advantage, and found that the actual situation was not as absolute as Herman imagined. The brain test method developed by Herman has been verified by EEG, and the correct rate is only 60%. Mazota, a neurophysiologist at the University of California, used the more advanced PET (Electron Radiography) to study the activities of the left and right brain, and found that the left brain was active when people were dealing with simple language problems. Listening to music is active for the right brain. But when dealing with a slightly complicated problem, both hemispheres of the brain are actively involved, not only the two hemispheres, but also the upper and lower parts of the brain, forehead and occipital part. The situation is complicated. In this experiment, there seems to be no evidence that the right brain has special magical power. Spenger, a psychologist at new york State University in the United States, also believes that although it is not completely wrong to say that the head portrait of the right brain is completely wrong, at least there is no scientific basis for this statement at present. The relationship between the left brain and the right brain is far more complicated than we know now.
Is there any special magical power in the right brain? Where does creative intuitive thinking occur in the brain? Is there any basis for distinguishing left brain advantage from right brain advantage? These questions, which are of great interest to psychologists and behavioral scientists, seem to remain a mystery. As sperry pointed out, the differences between the left and right brains exist objectively, but vary from person to person. Whether to affirm or deny the so-called right brain magic, the only reliable way is to further experiment and practice in the future.