Lateral asymmetry of positive and negative emotions

PD Duda, J Brown - Cortex, 1984 - Elsevier
This reaction time study examined whether the left and right hemispheres are differentially
specialized to process positive and negative affect respectively in adult females and males …

Hemispheric asymmetries in the perception of emotional and neutral faces

J McLaren, SE Bryson - Cortex, 1987 - Elsevier
This study was designed to investigate hemispheric asymmetries in the perception of both
positive and negative emotion, while minimizing extraneous factors known to favour right …

The effects of hemispheric asymmetries and depression on the perception of emotion

MM Moretti, S Charlton, S Taylor - Brain and cognition, 1996 - Elsevier
The present study investigated hemispheric asymmetries in the perception of positive and
negative emotion. The moderating effect of depression on hemispheric asymmetries was …

Differential contributions of the two cerebral hemispheres to the perception of happy and sad faces

P Reuter-Lorenz, RJ Davidson - Neuropsychologia, 1981 - Elsevier
Emotional and neutral facial expressions of the same individual were presented
simultaneously, one to each visual field, and subjects were required to identify the side …

Patterns of brain asymmetry in the perception of positive and negative facial expressions

NT Alves, JA Aznar-Casanova… - … : Asymmetries of Body …, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
The divided visual field technique was used to investigate the pattern of brain asymmetry in
the perception of positive/approach and negative/withdrawal facial expressions. A total of 80 …

Differential asymmetries for positive and negative emotion: hemisphere or stimulus effects?

SE Bryson, J McLaren, NP Wadden, M MacLean - Cortex, 1991 - Elsevier
Two experiments were carried out to determine whether expressive asymmetries in facial
stimuli might underlie evidence of differential hemispheric responses to positive and …

Visual-field bias in the judgment of facial expression of emotion

HS Asthana, MK Manual - The Journal of general psychology, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
The left and right hemispheres of the brain are differentially related to the processing of
emotions. Although there is little doubt that the right hemisphere is relatively superior for …

Hemisphere differences in perceiving positive and negative emotions

RS Hirschman, MA Safer - Cortex, 1982 - Elsevier
Two experiments tested the hypothesis that positive emotions are processed primarily by the
left hemisphere and negative emotions by the right hemisphere. In both experiments, facial …

Sex differences in the functional asymmetry for facial affect perception

DW Harrison, PM Gorelczenko… - International Journal of …, 1990 - Taylor & Francis
Twenty-six right-hand-dominant women and 26 right-hand-dominant men were required to
identify the facial affective expression of Ekman and Friesen's (1978) angry, happy, and …

Asymmetry of facial expression in spontaneous emotion

WG Dopson, BE Beckwith, DM Tucker… - Cortex, 1984 - Elsevier
The observation that emotional expressions are more intense on the left side of the face is
consistent with other evidence of the importance of the right hemisphere in emotional …