The Lefts and Rights of Everyday Life | Lorin Elias | TEDxUniversityofSaskatchewan

The human brain is lopsided in both structure and function, which results in lopsided behaviour from all of us. Some of these lateral biases are obvious, like handedness, but others are hidden in plain sights, such as our biases in how we pose for photographs, cradle a baby, turn our heads while we kiss, or even create lopsided art, architecture, and advertisements.
Lorin Elias is a professor of psychology and the Associate Dean Student Affairs, College of Arts and Science at the University of Saskatchewan.

He completed his PhD in behavioural neuroscience at the University of Waterloo, and has been studying laterality in the human brain and behaviour for over twenty years.

Papers from his federally-funded research have appeared in academic journals such as Neurosurgery, Neuropsychologia, Cortex, Brain and Cognition, Laterality, Cognitive Brain Research, and Behavioural Neuroscience. His papers have been featured in articles in popular newspapers and magazines around the world, such as Cosmopolitan, Wired, Maxim, The New York Post, and The New Zealand Herald.

He has also written several textbooks and book chapters, and for fun, he also writes reviews of high-end audio equipment. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx