The left-brain/right-brain idiom is overplayed. I've been in neuroscience/brain-machine-interface research for about 8 years, and the matter-of-fact public und

The left-brain/right-brain idiom is overplayed. I've been in neuroscience/brain-machine-interface research for about 8 years, and the matter-of-fact public understanding of "left-brain vs right-brain" does not in any way reflect the latest scientific understanding of how the brain works. It's like Feynman said: If you think you understand quantum physics..