The right hemisphere sees things in their context🧠
The right hemisphere sees the whole first, and then the left hemisphere separates it into parts. For this same reason, the right hemisphere also sees each thing in its context, as standing in a qualifying relationship with all that surrounds it, rather than taking it as a single isolated entity. Anything that requires indirect interpretation, which is not explicit or literal, that in other words requires contextual understanding, depends on the right frontal lobe for its meaning to be conveyed or received. The right hemisphere understands from indirect contextual clues, not only from explicit statement, whereas the left hemisphere will identify by labels rather than context (e.g. it identifies that it must be winter because it is ‘January’, not by looking at the trees).
References
- Mcgilchrist, Iain. (2010). The Master and His Emissary Chapter 2 What Do the Hemispheres Do (p. 99). London, UK: Yale University Press.
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