It is the left hemisphere, though, that deals with language at least, it does in right-handed people.
The left hemisphere is highly involved in language production and as a result it processes information linearly, literally, and semantically.
The same split-brain research that exposed shocking differences between the two hemispheres also revealed that the human left hemisphere has the interpreter.
Ms Giffords suffered a bullet wound to her brain's left hemisphere, which controls speech and movement for the right side of the body.
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.
For instance, an injury to the left hemisphere of the brain, which in 95% of people controls the capacity to understand and generate language, doesn't necessarily mean the patient can never have a conversation again.
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.
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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It taps into emotional brain centres and appears to arise in the right brain, whereas most language production occurs in the left cerebral hemisphere of the brain.
Peterson, best known for his work with biomechanical analyses, gave a demonstration that left many in the Southern Hemisphere conference room speechless.
Melott says that although the Northern hemisphere would have been left untouched by the first pulse of the extinction, he notes that, later, glaciation and sea level change would have had an impact everywhere.
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Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) estimates that between 65% to 85% of food-related emissions in the Western hemisphere is created once produce has left the farm.
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.
The right side of the brain (also called right hemisphere) recognizes shapes and colors, while the left side of the brain processes information in an analytical and sequential way and is more active when people read text or look at a spreadsheet.
In the southern hemisphere the moon is in the northern sky and its left and right sides reverse.
More than 1.5 million people were left homeless in a country that was already the poorest in the Western Hemisphere and racked by crisis.
Noting that the Latin American Left is far from monolithic, the paper urges the Bush administration to work with the hemisphere's democratic governments, even anti-American ones like that of Brazil - which has displayed growing unease about the violence and chaos around its perimeter that Venezuela has been fomenting - in order to contain the subversion and prevent the further planned violence emanating from Caracas.
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