Reading habits affect asymmetries in facial affect judgments: A replication Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Right- and left-handed native readers of scripts with opposing directionality were tested on a facial affect judgment task in free vision. Faces with smiles in viewers' left visual field were judged happier predominantly by (right-handed) readers of the left-to-right script (Hindi) whereas a right field preference was observed among the right-to-left readers (Urdu) and among the left-handers; no preference characterized illiterate controls. These findings replicate Vaid and Singh (1989) and indicate that reading habits may influence performance even on ostensibly nonlinguistic tasks thought to measure right hemispheric functioning.

published proceedings

  • BRAIN AND COGNITION

author list (cited authors)

  • Sakhuja, T., Gupta, G. C., Singh, M., & Vaid, J.

complete list of authors

  • Sakhuja, T||Gupta, GC||Singh, M||Vaid, J

publication date

  • December 1996