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  For example, there’s no truth to the idea that 
  the brain is half android and half artist, with 
  a left hemisphere dedicated to logic and analytical 
  thinking and a right hemisphere for intuition and 
  creativity.

But! Each hemisphere does tend to sequester different specialties, as is evidenced by stroke victims, no?

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Yes, I believe you are referencing Wernicke’s and Broca’s aphasia — which may occur after a stroke depending on which hemisphere was affected. But different specialties in the brain does not enforce the idea that the left part is logical and right part is creative.

This kind of speaks to a premise discussed later on in the article regarding the manner in which the gist of interesting trivia tends to drift as time passes, the longer trivia is in play and the greater currency it gains among laymen and non-experts.

Starting with the words:

  In a decades-long game of telephone [...]

The article points to an effect in the field of neuroscience that is not unlike The Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-ge...

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