right brain
Intuitive mental half
Right brain refers to the right hemisphere of the brain, popularly associated with creativity, intuition, and holistic thinking.
The term usually appears in informal contexts contrasting artistic or emotional processing with the logical, analytical functions attributed to the left brain: She's very right brain—always painting or writing poetry.
While neuroscience has complicated this neat division, the shorthand persists.
Overall perspective on things
- synthesisCombining parts into whole
- gestaltIntegrated perceptual whole
- integrationCombining into a whole
- interconnectionMutual joining of parts
spatial awareness · context · hemispheric · corpus callosum · lateralization · parallel processing · systems thinking
Faculty for forming ideas
- innovationCreating something original
- inspirationSource of creative impulse
- originalityNovel creative quality
- divergent thinkingProducing varied ideas freely
brainstorming · ideation · inventiveness · artistry · visionary · conceptualization · abstraction · playfulness
Instinctive sense about something
- hunchUnproven inner sense
- instinctInnate behavioral tendency
- insightDeep perceptive understanding
- sixth senseExtrasensory perception ability
perception · sensing · subconscious · pattern recognition · nonverbal · gestalt · tacit understanding · emotional intelligence
Sight-based creative disciplines
- paintingPigment on canvas
- sculptureShaped three-dimensional art
- musicOrganized auditory art
- danceRhythmic bodily movement
design · drawing · sketching · photography · crafts · pottery · weaving · illustration
Sharing another's emotions
- feelingSensed inner state
- emotional processingHandling feelings internally
- sensitivityResponsiveness to stimuli
- affectionWarm emotional attachment
compassion · mood · sentiment · passion · emotional awareness · heartfelt · expressiveness · rapport
big picture
Overall perspective on things
- synthesisCombining parts into whole
- gestaltIntegrated perceptual whole
- integrationCombining into a whole
interconnection · spatial awareness · context · hemispheric · corpus callosum · lateralization · parallel processing · systems thinking
imagination
Faculty for forming ideas
- innovationCreating something original
- inspirationSource of creative impulse
- originalityNovel creative quality
divergent thinking · brainstorming · ideation · inventiveness · artistry · visionary · conceptualization · abstraction · playfulness · whimsy
gut feeling
Instinctive sense about something
sixth sense · perception · sensing · subconscious · pattern recognition · nonverbal · gestalt · tacit understanding · emotional intelligence · snap judgment
visual arts
Sight-based creative disciplines
dance · design · drawing · sketching · photography · crafts · pottery · weaving · illustration · aesthetics
empathy
Sharing another's emotions
- feelingSensed inner state
- emotional processingHandling feelings internally
- sensitivityResponsiveness to stimuli
affection · compassion · mood · sentiment · passion · emotional awareness · heartfelt · expressiveness · rapport · connection
- brain partscerebellum, hippocampus, brainstem, thalamus, hypothalamus
- thinking stylesanalytical, creative thinker, critical thinker, rational, critical
- left and right symbolismleft hand, dexter, sinister, sinistral, left-handedness
- brain lateralitylaterality, handedness, left-handedness, hand dominance, left hand
- neuroanatomycerebellum, cerebral cortex, thalamus, hypothalamus, brainstem
- directionsnorth, south, east, west, left
right brainleft brain
Analytical cerebral hemisphere
left hemisphere · analytical thinking · linear thinking · rational mind · analytical mind