05-19-2013, 11:46 AM
Hi AJ,
I was fascinated when I read this post, I am very interested in the aspects of cognitive behaviour and emotions relating to right and left hemispheres of the brain. Because I am a musician, I have done little bits of research not into this in particular although it has cropped up in a lot of things that I have read regarding things like the ability to discern different tones/ musical notes. There is a whole branch of music science dedicated to this called cognitive musicology and also psychoacoustics touches on it as well. People with Perfect pitch which is an extremely rare ability indeed have been shown to have extremely developed right hemispheres in the brain which corresponds to the left hand, in fact all musicians have a more developed right hemisphere as do many creative people, but in music the right hemisphere which is emotional is beneficial for expressiveness and perception of tone, but the left hemisphere has to be also well developed because that controls rhythm and tempo. So drummers and percussionists have more developed.
It also seems that people who are ambidextrous and people with perfect pitch have a lot in common and it is not unusual for those people to "struggle" at school academically.
But originally what I wanted to say was what I thought you were going to mention. A few years ago now, as part of the new age hippie self development movement thingy mijiggy there were a few books coming out about releasing your inner child and the main aspect of this was drawing and writing with your left hand and this seems to have led to the current phase that you mentioned.
I'm also fairly certain that it was the same woman "Betty Edwards" who wrote the book about the inner child, although I can't seem to track it down on the net, but there are plenty of other books along the same lines, if you do a google search on "inner child left hand drawing" it brings up loads of stuff. but I'll shut up or else I'll just ramble on all night the way that I'm going at the moment.
Hope some of this makes sense, coz I haven't read it back to see if it does, but it's all in there somewhere, thanks for bringing up the subject.
All the best
AR
I was fascinated when I read this post, I am very interested in the aspects of cognitive behaviour and emotions relating to right and left hemispheres of the brain. Because I am a musician, I have done little bits of research not into this in particular although it has cropped up in a lot of things that I have read regarding things like the ability to discern different tones/ musical notes. There is a whole branch of music science dedicated to this called cognitive musicology and also psychoacoustics touches on it as well. People with Perfect pitch which is an extremely rare ability indeed have been shown to have extremely developed right hemispheres in the brain which corresponds to the left hand, in fact all musicians have a more developed right hemisphere as do many creative people, but in music the right hemisphere which is emotional is beneficial for expressiveness and perception of tone, but the left hemisphere has to be also well developed because that controls rhythm and tempo. So drummers and percussionists have more developed.
It also seems that people who are ambidextrous and people with perfect pitch have a lot in common and it is not unusual for those people to "struggle" at school academically.
But originally what I wanted to say was what I thought you were going to mention. A few years ago now, as part of the new age hippie self development movement thingy mijiggy there were a few books coming out about releasing your inner child and the main aspect of this was drawing and writing with your left hand and this seems to have led to the current phase that you mentioned.
I'm also fairly certain that it was the same woman "Betty Edwards" who wrote the book about the inner child, although I can't seem to track it down on the net, but there are plenty of other books along the same lines, if you do a google search on "inner child left hand drawing" it brings up loads of stuff. but I'll shut up or else I'll just ramble on all night the way that I'm going at the moment.
Hope some of this makes sense, coz I haven't read it back to see if it does, but it's all in there somewhere, thanks for bringing up the subject.
All the best
AR
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