Changes in Emotion Lateralisation throughout Childhood
Guest editors: Dr Victoria J. Bourne (University of Dundee), Dr Dawn Watling (Royal Holloway, University of London) and Dr Lance Workman (Bath Spa University)

With the emergence of interdisciplinary fields such as social, developmental, and affective neuroscience an increasing amount of research now examines the way in which brain-behaviour interactions develop. This special issue brings together current research that examines this interaction specifically in relation to the processing of emotion. The way in which emotion is lateralised in the brain has received a great deal of attention, with two primary and contrasting hypotheses proposed: the right hemisphere hypothesis and the valence hypothesis. Examining the way in which emotion lateralisation develops will advance our understanding of the relationship between brain development and social interaction.

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