Since the "Decade of the Brain", neuroscientific discoveries indicate that the human being is a "two brain creature." As stated in my earlier blog, the right hemisphere is most primary in the earliest stages of human development. The right brain allows for implicit communication with its interoceptive and exteroceptive environments and is particularly the case with the developing human's relationship with its primary caregiver. This interactive (intersubjective), non-verbal communication between the two allows for basic survival needs to be met as well as establishing a template for autonomic nervous system regulation.
The later developing left brain's role is humorously described as "trying to figure out what the right brain is up to..." It's primary role is to interpret the incoming stimuli from the right brain and to make sense of it.
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