Your brain's right and left side have distinctly different ways of looking at the world. The left side of the brain controls the right side of your body and, in essence, is logical analytical, judgmental and verbal. The right side of the brain controls the left side of the body and leans more to the creative, the intuitive. It is considered more with the visual and emotional side of life. Most people, if they thought about it, would identify more with their left side of the brain. As you read, your left side of the brain is sensibly making connections and analyzing the meaning of the words, the syntax and other complex relationships while putting it into a "language" you can understand. Meanwhile, your right side of the brain is providing emoti
onal and even humorous cues, decoding visual information and maintaining an integrated story structure. While all of this is going on, the two sides are constantly communicating with each other across a connecting fibre tract called the corpus callosum. There is a certain amount of overlap but essentially the two hemispheres of the brain are like two different personalities that working alone would be somewhat lacking and overspecialized, but when functioning together bring different strengths and areas of expertise to make an integrated whole. So, when trying to find out what side of the brain Richard uses more often, he had to take different types and styles of tests. These tests consisted of; an alert scale of cognitive style test, a multiple
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