Your friend, Sheila, says she is definitely a right-brained person because she excels in her language and art classes but performs miserably in her math classes

You tell her
A) indeed there is scientific evidence for some specialization across hemispheres, so she must have greater activation of one hemisphere compared to the other.
B) there is no scientific evidence for this type of hemispheric asymmetry for complex tasks, and actually the two hemispheres function together.
C) she has it backwards: if she likes language but dislikes math, she must be left-brained.
D) she needs to also assess her handedness before reaching this conclusion.


Answer: B

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