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

[hornedhopper.livejournal.com]

Oh, heavens! I'm ambiocular (g)! I don't know what it says about *my* thought processes, but in thinking about it, when talking with someone, where I look to desperately retrieve that strand of thought depends on where the other person is standing/sitting. I tend to look *away* from that person, so either to left or right...