Hmm, Let Me Think...

[stoutfellow]

In a discussion of body language on Language Log, David Nash is quoted as saying that "My off the cuff reaction is that flicking the eyes up and to the right like this feels like a help to memory retrieval".

When I'm trying to remember something, I look up and to the left; looking right feels very odd to me.

Am I weird or something? What do you do?

Comments

[mukhtar.livejournal.com]

I think he got it wrong. I've always been told up and to the left is memory retreival, up and to the right is making something up or using the imagination.