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CIA Declassified Document 2001 Illustration of the Right and Left Hemispheres of the Brain. - The strict division shown in that CIA document is outdated

While some functions show lateralization (language tends toward left, some spatial processing toward right), it’s not the clean split popularized in the 1970s-80s.

Left Hemisphere

(Right side of body)

Speech / Verbal Logical, Mathematical Linear, Detailed Sequential Controlled Intellectual Dominant Worldly Active Analytic Reading Writing, Naming Sequential Ordering Perception of Significant Order Complex Motor Sequences

Right Hemisphere

(Left side of body)

Spatial/ Musical Holistic Artistic, Symbolic Simultaneous Emotional Intuitive, Creative Minor (Quiet) Spiritual. Receptive Synthetic, Gestalt Facial Recognition Simultaneous Comprehension Perception of Abstract Patterns Recognition of Complex Figures