El mito del hemisferio derecho del cerebro y la creatividad.

Abstract

me hypothesis of the relationship between a right hemisphere and creativity remains actual. However, theories and research relating creativity or artistic activity and right hemisphere may be based on a fashonable way of thinking instead of on results of empiric studies. That topic style of thinking makes use of anthitetical terms, like convergent versus divergent, intuitive versus rational... It is not strange that this style of thinking tried to localize Arte, Individuo y Sociedad, n·' 8. Servicio de Publicaciones. Universidad Cosnplutense. Madrid, ¡996 loo Julio Romero creative functions in one hemisphere. If there are two hemispheres and two types of mental activity, namely rational or logic and creative, it's easy to think there is some class of causal relation. However, results of investigations are confusing and contradictory. Ibis paper suggests that the brain must be considered as a system, not a conjunct of parts, and that we have to look back to the ideas that he under these theories, because those ideas construct the reality that we study.