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Expressive and perceptual asymmetries of the resting face
H L Bennett1, R L Delmonico, C F Bond
1Department of Anesthesiology, University of California, Davis.
Neuropsychologia
|January 1, 1987
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.