You might be great at solving complex math problems while your best friend is an amazing wordsmith. But contrary to popular belief, it doesn’t mean that you are left-brained and your friend is right-brained.

The brain is made up of a right and left hemisphere. The left side’s lobes are accountable for speech and the right side for spatial thinking. Despite the two separate hemispheres, there is little to no evidence proving that individual personality traits are determined by one area of the brain.

In a 2013 study from the University of Utah, researchers studied brain scans of more than 1,000 people between the ages of seven and 29 to see if you can be one-side dominant. Researchers then mapped the brain into more than 7,000 individual regions and examined the scans to see which parts of the brain were most active. There was no evidence to prove a more active side, and verified that right-brain or left-brain prominence is a misconception.

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