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Old 02-20-2007, 02:13 PM
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This is interesting.

Take this test to find out how your brain works.

Here are my results.

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.
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Old 02-20-2007, 03:05 PM
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Interesting test I got:

Auditory 35%, Visual 64%, Left 52%, Right 47%
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Your Brain Usage Profile:

Auditory : 41%
Visual : 58%
Left : 50%
Right : 50%

oddly semi-accurate summary

princessperky, 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


that phrase has interesting timing, I just took a test this weekend and was asked to rate my artistic and creative talent (among others) I scored myself a whooping zero (on 6 seperate questions relating)

Course no reason I have potential, just the web site covering the earlier comment of me being 'individulalistic and artistic'
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Old 02-20-2007, 07:41 PM
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Ha-ha! That was kind of fun, but I wanted it not to be simply multiple choice. I wanted to be able to expalin why I chose what I did and why I sometimes would have preferred to give two of the answers as equally valid. I used to have this problem when taking IQ and achievemnet tests in grade school, too. My school was really big into standardized testing.

My results:

Auditory : 41%
Visual : 58%
Left : 70%
Right : 29%

Joan, 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.
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Old 02-21-2007, 05:49 AM
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Auditory : 33%
Visual : 66%
Left : 44%
Right : 55%

Being visual is fairly correct, but I didn't know I was fairly balanced. I always thought I was highly logic-incline. Hmm, well, it's still a fun little test.
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Old 02-21-2007, 07:07 AM
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just an FYI for all, about 70% of the population are visual learners, 20% are auditory, and only 10% are kinesthetic (learn by doing, like taking notes or working a model with their hands).

Auditory : 47%
Visual : 52%
Left : 75%
Right : 25%

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tina, you are somewhat left-hemisphere dominant with a balanced preference for auditory and visual inputs. Because of your "centrist" tendencies, the distinctions between various types of brain usage are somewhat blurred.

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, unless it requires total spontaneity and ability to improvise, your weaker traits. However, you are far from rigid or overcontrolled. You possess a degree of individuality, perceptiveness, and trust in your intuition to function at much more sophisticated levels than most.

Having given sufficient attention to detail, you can readily perceive the larger aspects and implications of a situation or of learning. You are functional and practical, but can blend abstraction and theory into your framework readily.

The equivalence of your auditory and visual learning orientation gives you two equally effective sensory input systems, each with distinctive features. You can process both unidimensionally and multidimen- sionally with equal facility. When needed, you sequence material while at other times you "intake it all" and store it for processing later.

Your natural ability to use your senses is also synthesized in your way of learning. You can be reflective in your approach, absorbing material in a non-aggressive manner, and at other times voracious in seeking out stimulation and experience.

Overall you tend to be somewhat more critical of yourself than is necessary and avoid enjoying life too much because of a sense of duty. You feel somewhat constrained and tend to sometimes restrict your expressiveness. In any given situation, you will opt for the rational, and learning of almost any type should be easy for you. You might need certain ideas explained to you in order to fit them into your scheme of things, but you're at least open to that!
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Old 02-21-2007, 08:33 AM
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Audio: 65%
Visual: 35%

Left: 42%
Right: 57%

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

I'm not surprised with my results, tho' I think some of my more left-brained family members would be ... they sometimes accuse me of being "all-right-brain."
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Old 02-21-2007, 11:36 AM
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Auditory : 37%
Visual : 62%
Left : 63%
Right : 36%

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.

I think this is somewhat true....
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Old 02-21-2007, 02:10 PM
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Sigh...this reminds me of high school. I was the only one in my entire class to score as an "auditory learner". My friends picked on me the rest of the year! Looks like some things just don't change...

Auditory : 53%
Visual : 46%
Left : 55%
Right : 44%
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Old 02-21-2007, 02:14 PM
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I just noticed that when DH took this, he got different questions than me, so I took it again:
Auditory : 60%
Visual : 40%
Left : 44%
Right : 55%
I guess that proves it...I am an auditory learner. So is DH though!

'Jodi, you show a slight right-hemisphere dominance with a moderate preference for auditory processing, an unusual and somewhat paradoxical combination of characteristics."
Figures...although from my previous test, I was left brained. I think my brain must just be confused...or indecisive.
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Auditory: 21
Visual: 78
Left: 75
Right: 25

"vsjhoc, you are somewhat left-hemisphere dominant and a predominantly visual learner, an interesting blend of characteristics!

You are an intensely visual person, active and continuously searching. As such, there is no rhythm or beat to limit your learning. You are constantly absorbing and imaging. Your tendency to be left- hemisphere dominant, however, creates some difficulties. You continue to attempt to structure all that input and categorize it, at the same time continuing to seek out new input while "reflecting" in what you have already gained.

With your visual orientation absorbing so much input, you sometimes utilize your left-brain focus to identify logical aspects of what you perceive and may become overwhelmed by details.

When faced with situations where you have to rely on verbal input exclu sively, you may find yourself needing to work more on maintaining an "overview" or perspective in order to fully grasp the material. It is likely that "sketching out" a representation of material that you are listening to will enhance your understanding and recall of the material. Drawing diagrams and note- taking allow you to "see" the relationships and absorb them more fully.

You tend to focus on details and are generally logical and organized. You have an intensity which is evident to others and yet can feel comfortable with the applied aspects of learning, the practical.

Given that you are somewhat goal-directed, the difficulty with being so visual is that you continuously "see" new goals and thus may be drawn from one to the other or at least forced to think about them within present structures. Because of your visual processing mode, you are regularly faced with tolerating and integrating ambiguity, a process which disrupts the equilibrium of your left-hemisphere preeminence.

It is likely that you are restless continuously and do not feel challenged. You may well explore engaging in activities which enhance right-hemisphere functioning which would reduce some of the tension you might currently be experiencing."

Sounds like a mess!
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Your Brain Usage Profile:

Auditory : 64%
Visual : 35%
Left : 55%
Right : 44%

No matter which side of your brain is dominant,
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you feel about yourself

Charlotte, 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.



**Very True!
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Your Brain Usage Profile:

Auditory : 66%
Visual : 33%
Left : 58%
Right : 41%

It was the same blurb as the one above - overall seemed accurate until the last paragraph. Those are not professions/areas that *fit* me.

Very interesting though.
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Auditory : 46%
Visual : 53%
Left : 61%
Right : 38%

Thought the left-to-right would be more symmetrical since I play the drums but I guess that may not have anything to do with it. Either that or it does and I can't play the drums very well Interesting though because the write-up afterward was pretty accurate.
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Ha-ha! That was kind of fun, but I wanted it not to be simply multiple choice. I wanted to be able to expalin why I chose what I did and why I sometimes would have preferred to give two of the answers as equally valid. I used to have this problem when taking IQ and achievemnet tests in grade school, too. My school was really big into standardized testing.
I understand wanting to explain yourself. I find myself wanting to argue my choice at times too. At the end of the test you can go back to "review the questions" and it explains how each is scored. You can't "argue", but at least you can see what they're looking at.
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Your Brain Usage Profile:

Auditory : 70%
Visual : 29%
Left : 55%
Right : 44%

rduell, 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.
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Your Brain Usage Profile:

Auditory : 46%
Visual : 53%
Left : 50%
Right : 50%

I got the same summary as PrincessPerky... it's kinda fun...
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Your Brain Usage Profile:

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

No matter which side of your brain is dominant,
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Auditory: 52%
Visual 47%
Left 60%
Right 40%

somewhat left brain dominant.
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they definitely gave detailed explanation of the possible answers!

Your Brain Usage Profile:

Auditory : 29%
Visual : 70%
Left : 47%
Right : 52%


hope it is useful or fun for people & maybe profitable for them ~
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