| The terms "left brain" and "right brain" refer to the left | | | | reversed, with the right side handling the things that |
| and right hemispheres of your brain. They each tend to | | | | most people's left side handles, and vice-versa. |
| process things differently, as explained in the following | | | | The left brain processes thing more sequentially and |
| two paragraphs. However, the following are | | | | systematically than the right. It is more rational, or at |
| generalizations. They hold true for over 90% of | | | | least more logical, analytical and objective. It tends to |
| right-handed people, and only 70% of left-handed | | | | look at the parts more than the whole. Finally, it was |
| people. In the cases where they aren't true, the division | | | | learned early on in studies of the hemisphere that the |
| of labor and processing styles is usually still there, but | | | | left side handles speech for most of us. |