As it turns out my brain is slow. OK, not slow, but my brain switch is. Apparently that means I’m similar to a mathematician in that my brain doesn’t switch from right to left as often as those more artistically inclined.
What the hell am I on about? Professor Jack Pettigrew, Neuroscientist at the Vision Touch and Hearing Research Centre, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Queensland, has what he thinks can test the rate at which your brain switches, hence determining things such as if you are better suited to math or music.
More intriguing is that monks can stay in the left side for hundreds of seconds, which is the more upbeat hemisphere.
Swing on over to the ABC for a transcript of the TV program Catalyst where Pettigrew is interviewed, Nature for an old article, and Jack’s site for the Bonneh’s Illusion to test your switch rate.
I scored a 2 the first time, and a 3 the second.
