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Right hemisphere

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Responsible for atypical word meanings; parallel thinking: thinking of multiple things at once; global information; withdrawal emotions: fear and anxiety; anomaly detector; prosody; spatial perception; Not responsible for speech or consciousness

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Prosody

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Emotional tone of language

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Spatial neglect syndrome

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Caused by right hemisphere damage; neglect of the left side of the world

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Left hemisphere

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Responsible for speech/language meaning; Broca’s and Wernicke’s area; consciousness; linear and sequential thinking; details; approach emotions: happy, positive, and anger; status quo and scripts