Brainworks Left Brain Right Brain Test

[Aya]

http://mindmedia.com/braintest.html
*you do not need to put your email address. You can just begin a test.

I just did this test and the result was interesting.
I think my result was pretty accurate. I learn more quickly by hearing than reading through papers. :)

Your Brain Usage Profile:
Auditory : 58%
Visual : 41%
Left : 50%
Right : 50%

 

[Buddy]

I got similar results as you, but I skipped 2 or 3 questions because they didn't offer an option for the 'right' answer. :)


Your Brain Usage Profile:

Auditory : 60%
Visual : 40%
Left : 50%
Right : 50%

 

[Zadius Sky]

Hmm...my results are different from yours. They could be accurate, maybe not. I learn more by seeing than hearing, but my brain hemispheres aren't even balanced.

Your Brain Usage Profile:

Auditory : 47%
Visual : 52%
Left : 63%
Right : 36%

 

[Gaby]

Here is mine, your Brain Usage Profile:

Auditory : 38%
Visual : 61%
Left : 45%
Right : 55%

Sounds about right, but I'm not sure!

 

[Tigersoap]

Your Brain Usage Profile:

Auditory : 56%
Visual : 43%
Left : 37%
Right : 62%

I am a right brain person !!
Seems to fit :)

 

[Thomas Alan]

Auditory : 66%
Visual : 33%
Left : 44%
Right : 55%

Hmmm, I would have considered myself to be more visual. It occurs to me though that taking the test at different times of the day and perhaps different moods my choices would vary.

Mac

 

[Al Today]

Your Brain Usage Profile:

Auditory : 38%
Visual : 61%
Left : 55%
Right : 44%

Guess I Look but don't Listen.

 

[Gimpy]

Your Brain Usage Profile:

Auditory : 38%
Visual : 61%
Left : 55%
Right : 44%

Guess I Look but don't Listen.

Duh. ;D

 

[dantem]

Here's mine:

Your Brain Usage Profile:

Auditory : 53%
Visual : 46%
Left : 66%
Right : 33%

If you click on 'View Personalized Analysis', an explanation will follow :)

dantem, you are mildly left-hemisphere dominant while showing a slight preference for auditory processing. This overall combination seems to indicate a well-working blend of logic and judgment and organization, with sufficient intuition, perception and creativity to balance that dominance.

You will at times experience conflict between how you feel and what you think which will generally be resolved in favor of what you think. You will find yourself interested in the practical applications of whatever material you have learned or whatever situation you face and will retain the ability to refine whatever knowledge you possess or aspects of whatever position you are in.

By and large, you will orient yourself toward intellectual activities and structure. Though not rigid, you will schedule yourself, plan, and focus on routine and continuity of operations, rather than on changes and disruptions

When changes or disruptions occur, you are likely to consider first how to ensure that such disruptions do The same balance is reflected in your sensory preference. You will tend to be reflective and measured in your interaction style. For the most part, you will be considered objective without being cold and goal-oriented while retaining the capacity to listen to others.

Preferentially you learn by listening and maintaining significant internal dialogues with yourself. Nevertheless, you have sufficient visualization capabilities to benefit from using graphs, charts, doodles, or even body movement to enhance your comprehension and memory.

To the extent that you are even implicitly aware of your hemispheric dominance and sensory style, you will feel most comfortable in those arenas which emphasize verbal skills and logic. Teaching, law, and science are those that stand out among the professions, along with technical sales and management.

...according to the last paragraph, I'm currently doing the wrong job here

 

[Gimpy]

I was curious to see if it could pick up dyslexia or any MS oddness. In the last ten years, telling me how to do something isn't enough, the short term memory is just not there. This one was fun, I might monkey with it some more.

Your Brain Usage Profile:

Auditory : 25%
Visual : 75%
Left : 56%
Right : 43%

you are somewhat left-hemisphere dominant and show a preference for visual learning, although not extreme in either characteristic. You probably tend to do most things in moderation, but not always.

Your left-hemisphere dominance implies that your learning style is organized and structured, detail oriented and logical. Your visual preference, though, has you seeking stimulation and multiple data. Such an outlook can overwhelm structure and logic and create an almost continuous state of uncertainty and agitation. You may well suffer a feeling of continually trying to "catch up" with yourself.

Your tendency to be organized and logical and attend to details is reasonably well-established which should afford you success regardless of your chosen field of endeavor. You can "size up" situations and take in information rapidly. However, you must then subject that data to being classified and organized which causes you to "lose touch" with the immediacy of the problem.

Your logical and methodical nature hamper you in this regard though in the long run it may work to your advantage since you "learn from experience" and can go through the process more rapidly on subsequent occasions.

You remain predominantly functional in your orientation and practical. Abstraction and theory are secondary to application. In keeping with this, you focus on details until they manifest themselves in a unique pattern and only then work with the "larger whole."

With regards to your career choices, you have a mentality that would be good as a scientist, coach, athlete, design consultant, or an engineering technician. You can "see where you want to go" and even be able to "tell yourself," but find that you are "fighting yourself" at the darndest times.

Coach?

 

[Andromeda]

According to the test, I'm balanced tonight. And in keeping with the diagnosis, that's both good and bad news.

Your Brain Usage Profile:

Auditory : 50%
Visual : 50%
Left : 50%
Right : 50%

you are one of those rare individuals who are perfectly "balanced" in both your hemispheric tendencies and your sensory learning preferences. However, there is both good news and bad news.

A problem with hemispheric balance is that you will tend to feel more conflict than someone who has a clearly established dominance. At times the conflict will be between what you feel and what you think but will also involve how you attack problems and how you perceive information. Details which will seem important to the right hemis- phere will be discounted by the left and vice versa, which can present a hindrance to learning efficiently.

In the same vein, you may have a problem with organization. You might organize your time and/or space only to feel the need to reorganize five to ten weeks later.

On the positive side, you bring resources to problem-solving that others may not have. You can perceive the "big picture" and the essential details simultaneously and maintain the cognitive perspective required. You possess sufficient verbal skills to translate your intuition into a form which can be understood by others while still being able to access ideas and concepts which do not lend themselves to language.

Your balanced nature might lead you to second-guess yourself in artistic endeavors, losing some of the fluidity, spontaneity and creativity that otherwise would be yours.

With your balanced sensory styles, you process data alternately, at times visually and other times auditorially. This usage of separate memories may cause you to require more time to integrate information or re-access it. When presented with situations which force purely visual or purely auditory learning, increased anxiety is likely and your learning efficiency will decrease.

Your greatest benefit is that you can succeed in multiple fields due to the great plasticity and flexibility you possess.

 

[Gertrudes]

I had Your Brain Usage Profile:

Auditory : 40%
Visual : 60%
Left : 55%
Right : 44%

The personalized analysis given was the same as Gimpy's

Then I did it a second time with responses I felt I could have just as easily picked before, and got:

Auditory : 33%
Visual : 66%
Left : 52%
Right : 47%

But the personalized analysis read differently on this one:

you exhibit an even balance between left- and right- hemisphere dominance and a slight preference for visual over auditory processing. With a score this balanced, it is likely that you would have slightly different results each time you complete this self-assessment quiz.

You are a well-rounded person, distinctly individualistic and artistic, an active and multidimensional learner. At the same time, you are logical and disciplined, can operate well within an organization, and are sensitive towards others without losing objectivity. You are organized and goal-directed. Although a "thinking" individual, you "take in" entire situations readily and can act on intuition.

You sometimes tend to vacillate in your learning styles. Learning might take you longer than someone of equal intellect, but you will tend to be more thorough and retain the material longer than those other individuals. You will alternate between logic and impulse. This vacillation will not normally be intentional or deliberate, so you may experience anxiety in situations where you are not certain which aspect of yourself will be called on.

With a slight preference for visual processing, you tend to be encompassing in your perceptions, process along multidimensional paths and be active in your attacking of situations or learning.

Overall, you should feel content with your life and yourself. You are, perhaps, a little too critical of yourself -- and of others -- while maintaining an "openness" which tempers that tendency. Indecisiveness is a problem and your creativity may not be in keeping with your potential. Being a pragmatist, you downplay this aspect of yourself and focus on the more immediate, obvious and the more functional

The bold part rings very true though.

According to the test, I'm balanced tonight

You can say that again, all 50! Did you cheat ;D?

 

[Zadius Sky]

I didn't see the "Personalized Analysis" part, so I took the test again. Below is the results that I had earlier today:

Your Brain Usage Profile:

Auditory : 47%
Visual : 52%
Left : 63%
Right : 36%

And, here's the results that I just obtained:

Your Brain Usage Profile:

Auditory : 53%
Visual : 46%
Left : 40%
Right : 60%

I'll say that's a bit of a difference. Each question was different than the ones that I answered earlier.

Anyway, here's the "explanation" for the recent results:

Zadius, you show a slight right-hemisphere dominance with a moderate preference for auditory processing, an unusual and somewhat paradoxical combination of characteristics.

You are drawn to a random and sometimes nonchalant synthesis of material. You learn as it seems important to a specific situation, and might even develop a resentment of others who attempt to direct your learning down a specific channel.

Your right-hemispheric dominance provides a structure that is only loosely organized and one which processes entire swatches of reality, overlooking details. You are emotional in your reactions and perceptual more than logical in your approach, although you can impose structure and a language base when necessary.

Your auditory preference, on the other hand, implies that you process information sequentially and unidimensionally. This combination of right-brain and auditory modes creates conflict, as you want to process data more rapidly than your natural processes allow.

Your tendency to be creative and free-flowing is accompanied by sufficient ability to organize and be logical, allowing you a reasonable degree of success in a number of different endeavors. You take in information methodically and systematically which can then be synthesized rapidly. In this manner, you manage to function consistently well, although certainly less efficiently than you desire.

You prefer the abstract and are a theoretician at heart while retaining the ability to be practical. You find the symbolism in a great deal of what you encounter and are something of a "mystic."

With regards to your lifestyle, you have the mentality which would be good as a philosopher, writer, journalist, or instructor, or possibly as a systems designer or social worker. Perhaps most important is your ability to "listen to your inner voice" as a mode of skipping over unnecessary steps to achieve your goals.

It's nice to know that the results revealed that I'm something of a "mystic."

But, the last bold line is interesting because that's what I am striving for...

 

[Masamune]

I got:

Auditory : 37%
Visual : 62%
Left : 47%
Right : 52%

and the same analysis as Gertrudes above. The description seems fairly accurate to me.

 

[pete02]

I'm a bit tired tonight (I guess the right side of my brain went to sleep on me) but even still, some of this analysis does describe me spot on. I am interested in trying this again after doing some EE breathing though and see if it balances my head some.

Auditory : 38%
Visual : 61%
Left : 80%
Right : 20%

Pete, you are strongly left-hemisphere dominant and show somewhat of a preference for visual learning, a positive combination of styles.

Your left-hemisphere dominance implies that you are strongly organized, logical and detail-oriented. Visual preference indicates that you learn in an active, simultaneous multidimensional fashion.

With this pattern you would likely be good in fields such as engineering, architecture, drafting, computer graphics and the like. It is likely that you will find situations which demand auditory processing somewhat frustrating unless you can impose your own structures and categories while processing it.

Another possible barrier to using your talents to the fullest may be the excess attention that you can tend to give details in your day-to- day operations and learning. You can acknowledge the existence of "the bigger picture" but concentrate on the details and expect that the picture will emerge from the details themselves.

You strive towards goals and this, coupled with the active nature of your learning preference, creates a sense of you being "driven." Your tolerance of ambiguity is, at times, in conflict with your preference for the straight path and directness in everything. You tend to be as impatient with yourself as you are with others.

You have enough auditory learning capability to somewhat balance your more natural chaotic learning style. It is likely that you "slide into" the more sequential auditory learning mode when you get frustrated with the amount of input to be processed.

You are somewhat likely to be driven and distracted, but you have some capability for articulating and visualizing goals, which helps to reduce frustration. You can listen to others, but not without occasional agitation. There are times when your left hemisphere cannot categorize your learnings and place them in context, because that is the domain of the right hemisphere.