ABSTRACT
The hemispheres differ in their sensitivity to particular neurotransmitters and neurohormones, as well as in neuronal architecture and organisation, in ways that make sense in terms of their neuropsychological differences. The right hemisphere is better at making connections between things: it tends to see things whole, whereas the left hemisphere sees the parts. The one emotion that is robustly demonstrated to be more associated with the left hemisphere is anger, though emotions that are superficial, conscious or willed may be subserved by the left hemisphere. The left hemisphere cannot trust and is prone to paranoia. The hemispheres have different ways of understanding the body. Only the right hemisphere has a whole-body image; the left hemisphere sees the body as an assemblage of parts and as if it were an object in space alongside other objects, rather than a mode of existence.
