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The Right Hand and the Left Hand of History

Guest Editors: Chris McManus, Mike Nicholls and Giorgio Vallortigara

Left-handers have been described as “a people without a history”. Although one in ten people today is left-handed, even historical studies of the rate of left-handedness before the twentieth century are rare. This special issue presents detailed reports on a range of topics from teaching children to use their right hands, the side on which babies should be held, left-handed swordsmen, the eighteenth-century left-handed musical prodigy William Crotch, the twentieth century left-handed guitarist Jimi Hendrix, an early nineteenth century lithograph that is probably obscene, and one of Jacob Bronowski's earliest BBC TV science programmes, Right Hand Left Hand, shown in 1953. 

 

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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