Plain English Meaning
The idea that people use two different styles of thinking — one that is logical and step-by-step, and one that is intuitive and picture-based. Good flight instruction needs to reach both styles, because flying uses both.
Full Definition
A popular model of cognition suggesting that the two hemispheres of the human brain specialize in different types of thinking — the left hemisphere handling logical, analytical, sequential, and verbal tasks, and the right hemisphere handling intuitive, spatial, holistic, and visual tasks. In aviation instruction, the model is used as a teaching framework to remind instructors that effective learning often requires engaging both analytical reasoning (procedures, calculations, regulations) and spatial/intuitive (, , ).