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One Head, Two Brains

Hidden Brain

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The Right Hemisphere Is More Emotionally Literate Than the Left

The right hemisphere is more emotionally literate. It reads emotional expression, and it gives emotional expressivity to a greater extent than the left. But there are some emotions that are more particularly associated with the left hemisphere. Perhaps the most striking one is anger, which happens to be the most lateralizes of all emotions,. And so when we then listen to a piece of music, we think we are hearing separate notes, where not, we are hearing an absolutely seamless flow in which we remember the notes that have just happened....

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