These days, the tendency is to interpret these dichotomies of personality types in terms of what is known as the "split brain"—the bilateral sectioning of the human Neocortex—many of whose characteristics have been collected by researchers and are given in the table below.19
The Bilateral Properties Of The Brain |
| Analytic | Holistic
| Sequential | Simultaneous
| Rational | Emotional
| Linguistic | Nonverbal Ideation
| Literal Meaning | Figurative Meaning
| Denotation | Connotation
| Abstract | Concrete
| Focal | Peripheral
| Temporal | Atemporal
| Discriminating | Generalizing
| Names | Face Recognition
| Rhyming | Music
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