Hemispheric superiority in reaction time to faces: a sex difference.
In males but not females, reaction time to faces is faster when stimuli are presented to the right hemisphere than when presented to the left hemisphere. The complete lack of a hemispheric difference in females suggests that with brief exposure and immediate judgement, a lateralized mechanism specialized for faces can be activated only in males.
D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology*; D005145:Face; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011930:Reaction Time; D012737:Sex Factors; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*