title: Expressive and perceptual asymmetries of the resting face.
abstract: Lateral facial composites reveal the asymmetry of the resting face. In the current research, we created lateral composites of 30 resting faces, then had subjects compare the two composites of a face with a depiction of the whole face in either normal- or mirror-image. Results indicate that the side of the face in a subject's left visual hemi-space dominates facial recognition. The magnitude of this bias can be altered by priming tasks. It is a bias in facial perception, not memory.
authors: Department of Anesthesiology, University of California, Davis.
authors: H L
authors: HL
authors: Bennett
authors: R L
authors: RL
authors: Delmonico
authors: C F
authors: CF
authors: Bond
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003463:Cues; D005149:Facial Expression; D005260:Female; D005556:Form Perception; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D008297:Male; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D014794:Visual Fields