Here is a comparison chart showing some common left and right-brained characteristics from here:
Left Hemisphere Style Right Hemisphere Style:
Rational
- Responds to verbal instructions
- Problem solves by logically and sequentially looking at the parts of things
- Looks at differences
- Is planned and structured
- Prefers established, certain information
- Prefers talking and writing
- Prefers multiple choice tests
- Controls feelings
- Prefers ranked authority structures
Sequential
- Is a splitter: distinction important
- Is logical, sees cause and effect
- Draws on previously accumulated, organized information
Right Hemisphere Style
Intuitive
- Responds to demonstrated instructions
- Problem solves with hunches, looking for patterns and configurations
- Looks at similarities
- Is fluid and spontaneous
- Prefers elusive, uncertain information
- Prefers drawing and manipulating objects
- Prefers open ended questions
- Free with feelings
- Prefers collegial authority structures
Simultaneous
- Is a lumper: connectedness important
- Is analogic, sees correspondences, resemblances
- Draws on unbounded qualitative patterns that are not organized into sequences, but that cluster around images
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