Eye and Head Turning Indicates Cerebral Lateralization
SciencePublished 5 May 1972
Marcel Kinsbourne
Citations438
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The results suggest that the direction in which people look while thinking reflects the lateralization of the underlying cerebral activity.
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When solving verbal problems, right-handed people usually turn head and eyes to the right, whereas with numerical and spatial problems, these people look up and left. Left-handed people differ in all these respects. The results suggest that the direction in which people look while thinking reflects the lateralization of the underlying cerebral activity.
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