The left hemisphere deals with superficial and forced presentations of emotion
The left hemisphere does play a role in the understanding and expression of emotion, but the differences lie in that the left hemisphere specialises in more superficial, social emotions, by contrast with the right hemisphere, which is more directly in touch with primary-process emotionality. Related to this, the left hemisphere may also be more involved in conscious representation of emotion: willed, or forced, emotional expressions, esspecially of the mouth area, are controlled by the left hemisphere. A study on conscious and unconscious processing of emotional facial expression has suggested that the left but not the right amygdala is associated with explicit representational content of the observed emotion, whereas the right amygdala is more closely involved with unconscious emotional processing.
References
- Mcgilchrist, Iain. (2010). The Master and His Emissary Chapter 2 What Do the Hemispheres Do (125). London, UK: Yale University Press.
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