dc.contributor.author | Wiseman, Richard | |
dc.contributor.author | Owen, Adrian M. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-02-26T17:23:53Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-02-26T17:23:53Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-06-01 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Wiseman , R & Owen , A M 2017 , ' Turning the other lobe: Directional biases in brain diagrams ' , i-Perception , vol. 8 , no. 3 , pp. 1-4 . https://doi.org/10.1177/2041669517707769 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2041-6695 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2299/19818 | |
dc.description | © 2017 The Author(s). This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). | |
dc.description.abstract | Past research shows that in drawn or photographic portraits, people are significantly more likely to be posed facing to their right than their left. We examined whether the same type of bias exists among sagittal images of the human brain. An exhaustive search of Google images using the term 'brain sagittal view' yielded 425 images of a left or right facing brain. The direction of each image was coded and revealed that 80% of the brains were right-facing. This bias was present in images that did not contain any representation of a human head. It is argued that the effect might be aesthetic in nature, the result of the Western tradition of reading left to right or due to the facial factors that underlie the bias previously found in portraits. | en |
dc.format.extent | 4 | |
dc.format.extent | 520771 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | i-Perception | |
dc.subject | Body perception | |
dc.subject | Cognition | |
dc.subject | Face perception | |
dc.subject | Perception | |
dc.subject | Experimental and Cognitive Psychology | |
dc.subject | Sensory Systems | |
dc.subject | Artificial Intelligence | |
dc.title | Turning the other lobe: : Directional biases in brain diagrams | en |
dc.contributor.institution | Department of Psychology and Sports Sciences | |
dc.contributor.institution | University of Hertfordshire | |
dc.contributor.institution | Learning, Memory and Thinking | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | |
dc.identifier.url | http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85020083567&partnerID=8YFLogxK | |
rioxxterms.versionofrecord | 10.1177/2041669517707769 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | |
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