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Published online 18 January 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news010118-9
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'I' is to the right
Neuroscientists home in on the bit of you that knows you're you.
Next time you look in a mirror or at a photo of yourself, spare a moment to thank your right hemisphere. For this is the part of your brain you are probably using to recognize your face, according to Julian Paul Keenan and colleagues of Harvard Medical School in Boston.
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