Are You Telling Me I Have an Unbalanced Brain?

As our brains become more lopsided, assignment of jobs between hemispheres becomes more different and more systematic. Having this kind of redundancy in the brain is really excellent because if you only have one part of the brain that can do one job and that part gets overwhelmed, you don't have what I've called "spillover" In a lot of people with less experience reading, for instance, the right hemisphere is actively involved in language comprehension. And when things get hard, these people have a whole other hemisphere that can take on some of the work.