The left hemisphere deals with non-realistic and artificial images

Contrary to how the right hemisphere deals with real things that have meaning to us in the lived world, the left hemisphere is more at home dealing with distorted, non-realistic, fantastic—ultimately artificial—images. This may be because they invite analysis by parts, rather than as a whole (see The right hemisphere sees the whole first, and then the left hemisphere separates it into parts). But it does appear that the left hemisphere has a positive bias towards whatever is bizarre, meaningless or non-existent.

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References

• Mcgilchrist, Iain. (2010). The Master and His Emissary Chapter 2 What Do the Hemispheres Do (115). London, UK: Yale University Press.

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