This means that the left hemisphere (language based) and right hemisphere (seat of emotions and non-verbal awareness) of the brain more neural communication, which is why most women may be better able to verbalize emotions (in general) than most men.

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The biggest differences in myelination occurred in the temporo-parietal region in the brain's left hemisphere the area that seems to control most language processing.

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For reasons that lie deep in the evolutionary history of the vertebrates, the right hemisphere deals with sensory input from the left-hand side of the body, and vice versa.

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Dr Iacoboni discovered that the mirror neurons involved in grasping the intentions of others are in part of the right hemisphere that corresponds to Broca's area in the left hemisphere, and both also correspond with mirror-neuron sites in monkeys.

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The same split-brain research that exposed shocking differences between the two hemispheres also revealed that the human left hemisphere has the interpreter.

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It is the left hemisphere, though, that deals with language at least, it does in right-handed people.

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