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SUBMITTER: Jung W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5597872 | biostudies-other | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Jung Wookyoung W Kang Joong-Gu JG Jeon Hyeonjin H Shim Miseon M Sun Kim Ji J Leem Hyun-Sung HS Lee Seung-Hwan SH
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience 20170801 8
Faces are processed best when they are presented in the left visual field (LVF), a phenomenon known as LVF superiority. Although one eye contributes more when perceiving faces, it is unclear how the dominant eye (DE), the eye we unconsciously use when performing a monocular task, affects face processing. Here, we examined the influence of the DE on the LVF superiority for faces using event-related potentials. Twenty left-eye-dominant (LDE group) and 23 right-eye-dominant (RDE group) participants ...[more]