Hufschmidt H J
Arch Psychiatr Nervenkr (1970). 1980;229(1):17-43. doi: 10.1007/BF00343801.
Eighty percent of right handers drawing a human profile, direct it towards the left. The neurophysiological basis for this fact and the dominant role that the right hemisphere plays in higher visual performances is discussed. The preference for the left profile direction is traced back to the early Greek period in paintings, drawings, coin portraits, gems, cameos, and vase portraits. Fifty thousand objects have been analyzed. A 60% prevalence of face direction towards the right occurs in the cultural centers of the Mediterranean before 600 B.C. Before the early Greek period: the Assyrian, Egyptian, and Sumerian cultures faced more profiles to the right. This tendency for right profile direction can be traced back to Stone Age cave drawings. The profile shift from right to left occurs in the early Greek period and is related to a shift in script and in letter profile at the same time. This profile shift occurs simultaneously with an acceleration of intellectual and cultural development which also influenced our present culture. Although the percentage of right handers might not have changed considerably since the Stone Age, the profile shift from right to left suggests a hypothetical change in dominance of the cerebral hemispheres for the higher visual perception which may have induced a left preference in the period around 600 B.C.
80%惯用右手的人在绘制人物侧面像时，会将其朝向左侧。本文讨论了这一现象的神经生理学基础，以及右半球在高级视觉表现中所起的主导作用。对左侧侧面像方向的偏好可以追溯到古希腊早期的绘画、素描、硬币肖像、宝石、浮雕和花瓶肖像中。已经对5万件物品进行了分析。公元前600年之前，在地中海文化中心，面部朝右的比例为60%。在古希腊早期之前：亚述、埃及和苏美尔文化中更多的侧面像是朝右的。这种朝右的侧面像方向的趋势可以追溯到石器时代的洞穴壁画。从右到左的侧面像转变发生在古希腊早期，并且与文字和字母侧面的转变同时发生。这种侧面像的转变与智力和文化发展的加速同时出现，这也影响了我们现在的文化。尽管自石器时代以来惯用右手的人的比例可能没有太大变化，但从右到左的侧面像转变表明，在高级视觉感知方面，大脑半球的优势可能发生了假设性的变化，这可能在公元前600年左右导致了对左侧的偏好。
