There is a longstanding and widely held misconception about the relative remoteness of
abstract concepts from concrete experiences. This review examines the current evidence for …

Becoming literate has been argued to have a range of social, economic and psychological
effects. Less examined is the extent to which repercussions of becoming literate may vary as …

To construct a coherent multi-modal percept, vertebrate brains extract low-level features
(such as spatial and temporal frequencies) from incoming sensory signals. However …

An oblique view of three-dimensional objects is preferred over a frontal or lateral view, partly
because it is more familiar and easily recognizable. However, which side of a symmetric …

Spatial biases in graphomotor production tasks such as figure drawing may reflect biological
(cerebral lateralization), biomechanical (limb movement), and/or cultural (reading/writing …

Recent findings showed that children, like adults, exhibit directional biases leading to
asymmetrical drawings. This appears to be the result of a complex interaction between …

People are frequently biased to use left-side information more than right-side information to
inform their perceptual judgements. This research examined whether the leftward bias also …

The symbolism of laterality in images implies that the virtuous figure is represented on the
right of the scene whereas the sinful character is depicted on the left. In portraits of male and …

In literature appreciation, aesthetic distance is a psychological state of the audience, which
changes constantly with their cognitive laws and understanding of literary works. This paper …

Many asymmetries characterize human functioning at the behavioral level, such as
handedness (right-handedness, left-handedness, mixed-handedness) and the cerebral …