Asymmetries in the perception of facial affect: is there an influence of reading habits? Academic Article

abstract

• Perceptions of happy facial affect from asymmetric composite faces presented in free vision were compared in four groups: left-to-right readers (Hindi), right-to-left readers (Arabic), left-to-right and right-to-left readers (Hindi/Urdu) and illiterates (Hindi/Urdu). Right- and left-handed users of Hindi and Urdu were studied. The analysis of asymmetry scores revealed a significant effect of Group, such that a left hemifield preference was present only in the left-to-right (Hindi) group. There were no reliable differences between right- and left-handers. Furthermore, the leftward bias was present in a significantly larger proportion of Hindi than Urdu or Arabic readers. These results are taken to reflect an interaction between a cerebral laterality effect and a directional scanning effect in facial affect judgment.

authors

• Vaid, Jyotsna

published proceedings

• Neuropsychologia

author list (cited authors)

• Vaid, J., & Singh, M.

citation count

• 102

complete list of authors

• Vaid, J||Singh, M

publication date

• January 1989

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Neuropsychologia  Journal

keywords

• Adult
• Affect
• Attention
• Dominance, Cerebral
• Educational Status
• Facial Expression
• Female
• Humans
• India
• Language
• Male
• Reading
• Visual Fields
• Visual Perception

PubMed Central ID

• 2594174

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/0028-3932(89)90040-7

URI

• https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/158729

start page

• 1277

end page

• 1287

volume

• 27

issue

• 10

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0028-3932(89)90040-7