Need something? Talk to my right ear!
Wednesday, June 24, 2009 - 04:56
in Psychology & Sociology
We humans prefer to be addressed in our right ear and are more likely to perform a task when we receive the request in our right ear rather than our left. In a series of three studies, looking at ear preference in communication between humans, Dr Luca Tommasi and Daniele Marzoli from the University 'Gabriele d'Annunzio' in Chieti, Italy, show that a natural side bias, depending on hemispheric asymmetry in the brain, manifests itself in everyday human behaviour. Their findings were just published online in Springer's journal Naturwissenschaften...
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