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=== Popular psychology ===
{{Further|Popular psychology}}[[File:Brain Lateralization.svg|thumb|right|Oversimplification of lateralization in pop psychology. This belief was widely held even in the scientific community for some years.]]
Some popularizations oversimplify the science about lateralization, by presenting the functional differences between hemispheres as being more absolute than is actually the case.<ref name="Westen 2006">{{cite book| vauthors = Westen D, Burton L, Kowalski K |title=Psychology : Australian and New Zealand edition|date=2006|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|___location=Milton, Qld.|isbn=9780470805527}}</ref>{{rp|107}}<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Toga AW, Thompson PM | title = Mapping brain asymmetry | journal = Nature Reviews Neuroscience | volume = 4 | issue = 1 | pages = 37–48 | date = January 2003 | pmid = 12511860 | doi = 10.1038/nrn1009 }}</ref> Interestingly, research has shown quite opposite function of brain lateralisation, i.e. right hemisphere creatively and chaotically links between concepts and left hemisphere tends to adhere to specific date and time, although generally adhering to the pattern of left-brain as linguistic interpretation and right brain as spatio-temporal.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://psychology.stackexchange.com/questions/16096/brain-right-hemisphere-is-random-and-left-hemisphere-is-linear-really|title = Cognitive psychology - Brain Right hemisphere is random and left hemisphere is linear? Really? | publisher = Stack Exchange, Inc }}</ref>{{Unreliable source?|date=August 2025|certain=y|reason=Psychology stack exchange is a forum, not a trustworthy source of information.}}<ref name="pmid10869045">{{cite journal |last1=Gazzaniga |first1=M. S. |title=Cerebral specialization and interhemispheric communication: Does the corpus callosum enable the human condition? |journal=Brain |date=July 2000 |volume=123 |issue=7 |pages=1293–1326 |doi=10.1093/brain/123.7.1293 |pmid=10869045 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
 
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