RIGHT-HEMISPHERE DAMAGE IMPAIRS THE ABILITY TO PROCESS EMOTIONAL EXPRESSIONS OF UNUSUAL FACES

Patients with focal brain damage, right and left hemisphere damage, an d nonpatient controls were asked to match photographs of emotion expre ssions that were depicted in unusual (line drawings, strange, and sche matic) and normal (usual) representations of faces with the target emo tion expressions of normal face. Nonpatient controls were significantl y superior to right hemisphere damaged patients in matching photograph s of emotion expressions that were depicted in line drawings of normal face and schematic face.