Mevorach, Carmel, et al. “The Left Hemisphere Sees the Trees; The Right Hemisphere Sees the Forest.” The Open University of Israel, The Open University of Israel.
The research by Carmel Mevorach and Prof. Glyn W. Humphreys of Birmingham University with Dr. Lilach Shalev of the Open University was published in the prestigious journal Nature Neuroscience.
The findings: Our perception of the whole and of the parts of a visual stimulus which was previously shown to be mediated by different brain regions is different for right- and left-handed people. While the left hemisphere of right-handed people is responsible for seeing the particular, the local – the trees; – for left-handed people it is the right hemisphere which is responsible for that.