ABSTRACT
This chapter describes brief encounters with the right-cognitive style shows that another reality can exist, in which an entirely different type of thinking dominates. The cognitive style of the left hemisphere has been called analytic, basically because this brain side breaks stimulus information down into its separate components or features. A related topic to cognitive styles is the concept of hemisphericity, a term first introduced by Bogen. The right-holistic mode is particularly good at grasping patterns of relations between the component parts of a stimulus array, integrating many inputs simultaneously to eventually arrive at a complete configuration. The laboratory findings with split- and normal-brain subjects in relation to this analytic-holistic processing dichotomy are now considered. Left-visual field (LVF) superiority already has been reported in normal subjects for the recognition of photographed faces as well as schematic drawings of faces.
