Why is it that if you are in a area unfamiliar to your brain that you are more likely to walk to the left than to the

Question: Why is it that if you are in a area unfamiliar to your brain that you are more likely to walk to the left than to the right.?
- Keywords:
  brain,
  direction,
  unfamiliar,
  walk
Asked by forrestgump to Alex, Jools, Lynz, Matt, Rika on 15 Jun 2011.
- Lyndsey Fox answered on 15 Jun 2011:
  
  Ooh I didn’t know that, that’s quite interesting. I would be interested to know what the other scientists think.
  
  I would have thought that right handed people subconsciously went right and left handed people went left, which ever side of you brain was dominant. But I honestly haven’t a clue!

Question: Why is it that if you are in a area unfamiliar to your brain that you are more likely to walk to the left than to the right.?