The terms “left brain” and “right brain” refer to the left and right hemispheres of your brain. They each tend to process things differently, as explained in the following two paragraphs. However, the following are generalizations. They hold true for over 90% of right-handed people, and only 70% of left-handed people. In the cases where they aren’t true, the division of labor and processing styles is usually still there, but reversed, with the right side handling the things that most people’s left side handles, and vice-versa.
The left brain processes thing more sequentially and systematically than the right. It is more rational, or at least more logical, analytical and objective. It tends to look at the parts more than the whole. Finally, it was learned early on in studies of the hemisphere that the left side handles speech for most of us.
The right brain is the “artists” brain. It handles thing in more random and subjective manor. It is generally responsible for “hunches” and other intuitive processes. It looks more at wholes, and is best at pattern-recognition, making it the “map reading”...