Describe the lateralization of emotion in the cerebral cortex.
What will be an ideal response?
Answers should include: In most people, activity in the left hemisphere is correlated with positive emotions, whereas activity in the right hemisphere is correlated with negative emotions. Most people show a preference for processing emotional information with the right hemisphere in visual tests and dichotic listening tasks. Laterality is also evidenced by the tendency for most people to show asymmetry in facial expression.
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