Mainly Visual Aspects of Emotional Laterality in Cognitively Developed and Highly Social Mammals—A Systematic Review
Guido Gainotti
Abstract:Several studies have shown that emotions are asymmetrically represented in the human brain and have proposed three main models (the ‘right hemisphere hypothesis’, the ‘approach-withdrawal hypothesis’ and the ‘valence hypothesis’) that give different accounts of this emotional laterality. Furthermore, in recent years, many investigations have suggested that a similar emotional laterality may also exist in different animal taxa. However, results of a previous systematic review of emotional laterality in non-huma… Show more
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