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 TaylorWe actually do generate some new cells, some new neurons. So in the case of trauma there is the potential for there to be some new neural development which gives the person the chance to create new circuitry.
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 Taylor