Left vs. Right

Michel Van de Gaer of Belgium summarizes the latest updates about the left hemisphere (LH) vs. right hemisphere (RH) theory in his website : “Semmes (1968) asserted that the left hemisphere is focally organized [i.e., as we put it, textually] and the right, is diffusely organized [contextually]”. Gaer: “Neurologists Gereon Fink of the University of Düsseldorf, Germany and John Marshall of Oxford theorized that the difference between the hemispheres is in their style of working: the RH thought and saw in wide-angle [that is, saw the indirectly related data i.e. context], while the LH zoomed in on the details [the directly relevant data, which can be called text]”.