Supposedly resulting from abnormal antenatal exposure to hormones, this cluster includes maleness, homosexuality, left-handedness, poor visual-spatial skills, immune disorders, and perhaps also language-learning talent.

ECONOMIST: What makes some people learn language after language?

The right hemisphere is more involved in holistic perception and as a result it processes information by integrating it into perceptual models (visual, spatial, auditory, etc).

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It was an astonishing triumph of human visual-spatial reasoning, and one of the first major scientific advances to come from playing a video game (though plenty of software engineers I know would argue that video games activate much more creativity than we care to acknowledge).

CNN: People and computers need each other

The work starts with discussions focused on client objectives -- making a visual statement, drawing a particular kind of traffic, solving a spatial problem -- and moves into the design phase, rendering two or three different ideas.

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