A left hemispace bias for visualizing emotional situations.
Forty-three college-aged subjects posed a series of emotional facial expressions and described their strategies for creating such expressions. The majority of subjects (86%) reported visualizing an image or situation. When asked for the location of the image, the majority (62%) indicated the left hemispace, and only 5% indicated the right.
D000328:Adult; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D004644:Emotions; D005133:Eye Movements; D005149:Facial Expression; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination; D008297:Male