Left Hemisphere Cannot Grasp Implicit Meaning

The left hemisphere is expert at familiar, routine procedures—looking words up in the dictionary and stringing them together by pre-arranged rules—but it cannot grasp the overall picture: it doesn't understand humor, metaphor, embodied meaning, can't read faces or body language, doesn't know that what is unsaid and the tone of voice matter, so all interpretation of implicit meaning depends on the right hemisphere; if anything is new, it is at a loss.