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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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