The left hemisphere is very interested in language; it communicates in words, it has a past, a present, and a future; it has a time component and it's all about details. The right hemisphere is more about the right now-right here experience where everything is an enormous collage of all the sensory systems flooding into our brains.
Jill Bolte TaylorThe two hemispheres of the brain are two very different places and they don't share any cell bodies. They are completely separate entities.
Jill Bolte TaylorCan we think more than one thought at the same time? Most of us know we can't do that. Both hemispheres are always working all of the time. But one of them is always dominant.
Jill Bolte Taylor