Perceiving emotion: There’s more than meets the eye

Abstract It has been long known that the human right hemisphere makes special contributions to the analysis of the emotional significance of facial expressions. Recent studies of brain damaged patients now show more precisely where and how the right hemisphere goes about doing so.

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