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Asymmetry of Left Versus Right Lateral Face in Face Recognition

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Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2007)

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Prior research has found that the left side of the face is emotionally more expressive than the right side [1]. This was demonstrated in a study where the right and the left halves of a face image were combined with their mirror-reversed duplicates to make composite images. When observers were asked which composite face appeared more emotional, they selected the left-left over the right-right composite more often.

This research was supported in part by grants from 973 Program (2006CB303101), the NSFC (60433030, 30500157, and 30600182) and China-UK Science Networks.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China

    Wenfeng Chen & Xiaolan Fu

  2. Department of Psychology, University of Hull, Cottingham Road, Hull, HU6 7RX, UK

    Chang Hong Liu

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Chen, W., Liu, C.H., Fu, X. (2007). Asymmetry of Left Versus Right Lateral Face in Face Recognition. In: Paiva, A.C.R., Prada, R., Picard, R.W. (eds) Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction. ACII 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4738. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74889-2_63

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