I came across this and thought the information was rather interesting.
Up and to the Left
Indicates: Visually Constructed Images (Vc)
If you asked someone to “Imagine a purple buffalo”, this would be the direction their eyes moved in while thinking about the question as they “Visually Constructed” a purple buffalo in their mind.
From Eye Movement and Lying – How to detect lies – which features a direction for all sorts of things, smell, sound, memory…
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Relatedly I’ve heard that people look one way when doing Maths problems in their heads and the other when doing anagrams. Unfortunately I have no-one to test it on at the moment, and I’ve forgotten which is left and which is right!
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techbee · March 8, 2006 at 6:57 pm
Interesting. It reminds me that I once interviewed deaf people. They tried to explain how they could always tell when someone lyed to them; Probably through the subliminal eye moves explained here.