Adults' preferences for side-of-hold as portrayed in paintings of the Madonna and Child

References

• Alvarez , G. 1990 . Child-holding patterns and hemispheric bias . Ethology and Sociobiology , 11 : 75 – 82 .
   Google Scholar
• Arnheim , R. 1969 . Art and visual perception , Berkeley & Los Angeles : University of California Press .
   Google Scholar
• Banich , M. T. , Heller , W. and Levy , J. 1989 . Aesthetic preference and picture asymmetries . Cortex , 25 : 187 – 195 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bartlett , J. C. , Gernsbacher , M. A. and Till , R. E. 1987 . Remembering left–right orientation of pictures . Journal of Experimental Psychology: Leaning, Memory and Cognition , 13 ( 1 ) : 27 – 35 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Blakemore , J. 1981 . Age and sex differences in interaction with a human infant . Child Development , 52 : 386 – 388 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Blantz , V. , Tarr , M. J. and Bulthoff , H. H. 1999 . What object attributes determine canonical views . Perception , 28 : 575 – 600 .
   Google Scholar
• Borod , J. C. , Haywood , C. S. and Koff , E. 1997 . Neuropsychological aspects of facial asymmetry during emotional expressiveness: A review of the normal adult literature . Neuropsychology Review , 7 : 41 – 60 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bundy , R. S. 1979 . Effects of infant head position on side preference in adult handling . Infant Behavior and Development , 2 : 355 – 358 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Burt , C. 1937 . The backward child , New York : Appleton-Century .
   Google Scholar
• Butler , S. , Gilchrist , I. D. , Burt , D. M. , Perrett , D. I. , Jones , E. and Harvey , M. 2005 . Are the perceptual biases found in chimeric face processing reflected in eye movement patterns? . Neuropsychologia , 43 : 52 – 59 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Carbary , T. J. , Almerigi , J. B. and Harris , L. J. 2001 . The left visual hemispace bias for the perception of chimeric faces: A further test of the difficulty of discrimination hypothesis . Brain and Cognition , 46 : 56 – 62 .
   Google Scholar
• Chatterjee , A. 2002 . Portrait profiles and the notion of agency . Empirical Studies of the Arts , 20 : 33 – 41 .
   Google Scholar
• Chokron , S. and De Agostini , M. 2000 . Reading habits influence aesthetic preference . Cognitive Brain Research , 10 : 45 – 49 .
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Christman , S. and Pinger , K. 1997 . Lateral biases in aesthetic preferences: Pictorial dimensions and neural mechanisms . Laterality , 2 : 155 – 175 .
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Corballis , M. C. and Beale , I. L. 1976 . The psychology of left and right , Hillsdale, NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc .
   Google Scholar
• Coren , S. and Porac , C. 1977 . Fifty centuries of right-handedness: The historical record . Science , 198 : 631 – 632 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cutting , J. E. 2006 . The mere exposure effect and aesthetic preference P. Locher , C. Martindale L. Dorfman , New directions in aesthetics, creativity, and the psychology of art 33 46 . Amityville, NY : Baywood Publishing Company .
   Google Scholar
• Damerose , E. Vauclair , J. 2002 . Posture and laterality in human and non-human primates: Asymmetries in maternal handling and the infant's early motor asymmetries L. J. Rogers M. Andrews , Comparative vertebrate lateralisation 306 362 . Cambridge, , UK : Cambridge University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Faul , F. , Erdfelder , E. , Lang , A-G. and Buchner , A. 2007 . G*Power 3: A flexible statistical power analysis program for the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences . Behavior Research Methods , 39 : 175 – 191 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Faurie , C. Raymond , M. 2004 . Handedness frequency over more than ten thousand years . Proceedings of the Royal Society. London B (Suppl.) , 271 , S43 S45 .
   Google Scholar
• Finger , S. 1975 . Child-holding patterns in Western art . Child Development , 46 : 267 – 271 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gordon , I. E. 1974 . Left and right in Goya's portraits . Nature , 249 : 197 – 198 .
   Google Scholar
• Grüsser , O. J. 1983 . Mother–child holding patterns in Western art: A developmental study . Ethology and Sociobiology , 4 : 89 – 94 .
   Google Scholar
• Harris , L. J. 2007 . Babes in arms: Studies in laterality of function Cohen H. B. Stemmer , Consciousness and cognition: Fragments of mind and brain 83 113 . Academic Press : New York .
   Google Scholar
• Harris , L.J. in press . Side biases for holding and carrying infants: Reports from the past and possible lessons for today . Laterality .
   Google Scholar
• Harris , L. J. , Almerigi , J. B. and Kirsch , E. A. 2000 . Side preference in adults for holding infants: contributions of sex and handedness in a test of imagination . Brain and Cognition , 43 : 246 – 252 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Harris , L. J. , Spradlin , M. P. Jr and Almerigi , J. B. 2007 . Mothers’ and fathers’ lateral biases for holding their newborn children: A study of images from the World Wide Web . Laterality , 12 : 64 – 86 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hoptmann , M. and Levy , J. 1988 . Perceptual asymmetries in left- and right-handers for cartoon and real faces . Brain and Cognition , 8 : 178 – 188 .
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Hornblower , G. D. 1928 . Right-handedness . Man , 28 : 168
   Google Scholar
• Jacobsen , T. , Schubotz , R. I. , Höfel , L. and Cramon , D. Y. 2006 . Brain correlates of aesthetic judgment of beauty . NeuroImage , 29 : 276 – 285 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Jones , G. V. 1990 . Misremembering a common object: When left is not right . Memory & Cognition , 18 : 174 – 182 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Knust-Wilson , W. R. and Zajonc , R. B. 1980 . Affective discrimination of stimuli that cannot be recognized . Science , 207 : 551 – 558 .
   Google Scholar
• Levy , J. 1976 . Lateral dominance and aesthetic preference . Neuropsychologia , 14 : 431 – 445 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Levy , J. , Heller , W. , Banich , M. T. and Burton , L. A. 1983 . Asymmetry of perception in free viewing of chimeric faces . Brain and Cognition , 2 : 404 – 419 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Locher , P. J. , Stappers , P. J. and Overbeeke , K. 1998 . The role of balance as an organizing design principle underlying adults’ compositional strategies for creating visual displays . Acta Psychologica , 99 : 141 – 161 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Luh , K. E. , Rueckert , L. M. and Levy , J. 1991 . Perceptual asymmetries for free viewing of several types of chimeric stimuli . Brain and Cognition , 16 : 83 – 103 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Maestripieri , D. and Pelka , S. 2002 . Sex differences in interest in infants across the lifespan. A biological adaptation for parenting? . Human Nature , 13 : 327 – 344 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Manning , J. T. 1991 . Sex differences in left-side infant holding: Results from “family album” photographs . Ethology and Sociobiology , 12 : 337 – 343 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Mattingly , J. B. , Bradshaw , J. L. , Nettleton , N. C. and Bradshaw , J. A. 1994 . Can task specific perceptual bias be distinguished from unilateral neglect? . Neuropsychologia , 32 : 805 – 817 .
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• McLaughlin , J. P. 1986 . Aesthetic preference and lateral preferences . Neuropsychologia , 24 : 587 – 590 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• McLaughlin , J. P. , Dean , P. and Stanley , P. 1983 . Aesthetic preference in dextrals and sinistrals . Neuropsychologia , 21 : 147 – 153 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• McManus , I. C. 1979 . Determinants of laterality in man . Unpublished PhD thesis , University of Cambridge , Cambridge, , UK .
   Google Scholar
• McManus , I. C. 2005 . Symmetry and asymmetry in aesthetics and the arts . European Review , 13 : 157 – 180 .
   Google Scholar
• McManus , I. C. and Humphrey , N. K. 1973 . Turning the left cheek . Nature , 243 : 271 – 272 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Mebert , C. G. Michel , G. F. 1980 . Handedness in artists J. Herron Neuropsychology of left-handedness 273 279 . New York : Academic Press .
   Google Scholar
• Nachson , I. , Argaman , E. and Luria , A. 1999 . Effects of directional habits and handedness on aesthetic preference for left and right profiles . Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology , 30 : 106 – 114 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Nicholls , M. E. R. 2000 . Asymmetries in portraits: Insight from neuropsychology M. K. Mandal , B. Bulman-Fleming G. Tiwari , Side bias: A neuropsychological perspective 313 329 . Amsterdam, , The Netherlands : Kluwer Academic Publishers .
   Google Scholar
• Nicholls , M. E. R. , Bradshaw , J. L. and Mattingly , J. B. 1999 . Free-viewing perceptual asymmetries for the judgement of brightness, numerosity, and size . Neuropsychologia , 37 : 307 – 314 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Padakannaya , P. , Devi , M. L. , Zaveria , B. , Chengappa , S. K. and Vaid , J. 2002 . Directional scanning effect and strength of reading habit in picture naming and recall . Brain and Cognition , 48 : 484 – 490 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Peterson , J. M. 1979 . Left-handedness: Differences between student artists and scientists . Perceptual and Motor Skills , 48 : 961 – 962 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Posèq , A. W. G. 2001 . Lateral inversions and introversion in Ingres . Laterality , 6 : 1 – 20 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Salk , L. 1961 . The importance of the heartbeat rhythm to human nature: Theoretical, clinical, and experimental observations . Proceedings of the Third World Congress of Psychiatry 740 746 . Toronto : University of Toronto Press .
   Google Scholar
• Turnbull , O. H. and Lucas , M. D. 2000 . “Tell me, where is fancy bred?” The cardiac and cerebral accounts of the lateral cradling bias ” . In Side bias: A neuropsychological perspective , Edited by: Mandal , M. K. , Bulman-Fleming , B. and Tiwari , G. 267 – 287 . Amsterdam, , The Netherlands : Kluwer Academic Publishers .
   Google Scholar
• Uhrbrock , R. S. 1973 . Laterality in art . Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism , 32 : 27 – 35 .
   Google Scholar
• Vaid , J. and Singh , M. 1989 . Asymmetries in the perception of facial affect: Is there an influence of reading habits? . Neuropsychologia , 27 : 1277 – 1287 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Vaid , J. , Singh , M. , Sakhuja , T. and Gupta , G. C. 2002 . Stroke direction asymmetry in figure drawing: Influence of handedness and reading/writing habits . Brain and Cognition , 48 : 597 – 602 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• van der Meer , A. and Husby , T. 2006 . Handedness as a major determinant of functional cradling bias . Laterality , 11 : 263 – 276 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Vartanian , O. and Goel , V. 2004 . Neuroanatomical correlates of aesthetic preference for paintings . NeuroReport , 15 : 893 – 897 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Webster , T. and Parkes , [Mrs.] W. 1848 . Encyclopedia of domestic economy , New York : Harper & Brothers .
   Google Scholar
• Wilson , D. 1885 . VII. Paleolithic dexterity . Proceedings & Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, 3rd Series , 119 133 .
   Google Scholar
• Wilson , D. 1885–1886 . Primaeval dexterity . Proceedings of the Canadian Institute, 3rd Series , 124 143 .
   Google Scholar
• Wölfflin , H. 1941 . Uber das rechts und links im bilde . Gedanken zur Kunstgeschichte . Basel, , Switzerland : Schabe .
   Google Scholar
• Zajonc , R. B. 1968 . Feeling and thinking: Preferences need no inferences . American Psychologist , 35 : 151 – 175 .
   Google Scholar