Face memory and hemispheric preference: Emotionality and extraversion
Brain and CognitionPublished 1 July 1984
W. Burt Thompson, John H. Mueller
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Emotional orienting tasks led to better retention than nonemotional tasks, and this difference was most clear for subjects with a right-hemisphere cognitive style.
Abstract
Subjects made arousing or nonarousing judgments about photographs of strangers, then had an unannounced recognition test over the photographs. Emotional orienting tasks led to better retention than nonemotional tasks. Assuming emotionality is predominantly a right-hemisphere activity, then this result is consistent with other research showing a right-hemisphere advantage in processing faces. This difference was most clear for subjects with a right-hemisphere cognitive style. Extraversion had no effect on face recognition, nor did a subject's cognitive style seem to be associated with extraversion or neuroticism scores.
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