Differential hemispheric lateralization of primary and social emotions: implications for developing a comprehensive neurology for emotions, repression, and the subconscious

Eleven patients underwent injection of amobarbital into their right and left carotid arteries (Wada test) to determine propositional language dominance as part as a standard clinical evaluation when considering ablative neurosurgery for control of epileptic seizures. During the right-sided injection, patients were asked to recall verbally an emotional life experience that had been identified before the Wada test as part of a research to assess affective prosody