Neuropolitics

[shipperx]

Neuropolitics meme gakked from ww1614

results:

Your responses are consistent with the following attributes: You have a probable elevation in your dopaminergic activation system. Your right prefrontal cortex is more involved in your political decision making than your left. Your olfactory system plays a stronger than average role in mating behavior. Indicators of enhanced right prefrontal and bilateral temporal activity in humor detection. Color preferences may indicate an enhanced dopamine level in your visual cortex. Responses point to a probable increase in activity in the right anterior cingulate and amygdala. You have a higher tolerance for ambiguity in your thinking styles, and a greater inhibition of your left inferior parietal cortex. Your responses indicated a slight tendency to classify facial expressions as less threatening, and a more bilateral orientation of the amygdalae for facial recognition. You exhibited an elevation in emotional recognition in this survey. Overall, your cognitive style is balanced between your left and right hemispheres.

Comments

[ww1614.livejournal.com]

Heh, you scored a lot like me. :) Except you are more balanced where as I'm more right-brained. (This makes sense to me.)

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

I usually score fairly evenly divided between right and left brain (though I always remember the book from college "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" and wonder whether I would be a better artist if I were more right brained. Although I think it's fairly common for architects to exhibit near equillibrium between right and left as we tend to use both art and science about equally).

[rahirah]

So...uh...what does all that boil down to?

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Beats the hell out of me. Ask Wendy. :) (The only thing that I remember is that Right Brain has to do with artistic stuff more than left brain and left brain is more mathematic. But that's WAY oversimplified).

[rahirah]

Mine said I was more right-brained, which I don't have any particular quibble with, but I don't know if it's a very accurate test. IIRC the left brain governs things like language as well as mathematics, and they didn't really test for either language or math skills. And my interpretation of the expressions was usually "none of the above." And a lot of their questions I couldn't answer accurately, because I don't follow either of the political candidates they used obsessively, and I have no idea what their body language or senses of humor are like.

So...I got a lot of five-dollar words, but I think I'd rather have the five dollars. *g*

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Heh. Sounds like the comment I made on Wendy's LJ. I thought that the test was making a lot of suppositions on very, very little information. (and I frequently had problems with the facial expressions as I wouldn't have described the way that they were. Where was "sarcastic mocking" as a response to any of them?