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Wahrheit

Reading this caused me to immediately connect with the different eye direction shifts that usually accompany recall of auditory, visual and kinesthetic information. The shifts are almost certainly a trigger that changes brain states/patterns and aids recall of the requested information.

Shifting the gaze away from the questioner may be a similar trigger that removes a distraction and changes state, as well.

dilys

I didn't notice that the study indicated the direction in which the children looked, but the point you raise is likely part of it.

"Rolling the eyes" or a child's looking up to remember may be not only a search for the information, but a psychoneurological gesture to lighten his/her mood and lift anxiety.

This old post, with a very different point, also alluded to some of this:
http://goodandhappy.typepad.com/g_as_in_good_h_as_in_happ/2005/06/authoritarian_w.html

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