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The Right Hand and the Left Hand of History

A Special Issue of Laterality

The Right Hand and the Left Hand of History
  • Edited by Chris McManus, Michael Nicholls and Giorgio Vallortigara.

Published February 2010

Left-handers have been described as "a people without a history". This special issue provides scholarly analyses of aspects of asymmetry in history, from the Renaissance to the 20th Century. Lauren Harris presents three studies describing: An 1811 American child-care manual for parents…
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Behavioural and Morphological Asymmetries in Amphibians and Reptiles: Proceedings of the 4th World Congress of Herpetology Satellite Symposium

A Special Issue of Laterality

Behavioural and Morphological Asymmetries in Amphibians and Reptiles: Proceedings of the 4th World Congress of Herpetology Satellite Symposium
  • Edited by Yegor Malashichev, and Lesley J. Rogers.

Published July 2002

Lateralization of brain and behaviour is now considered a common feature for all vertebrates, from agnathans and fish to birds and mammals. An important place in this field of research is occupied by amphibians and reptiles - the key classes to understand evolution of lateralization of behaviour…
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Handedness and Brain Asymmetry

The Right Shift Theory

Handedness and Brain Asymmetry
  • By Marian Annett.

Published December 2001

Brain asymmetry for speech is moderately related to handedness but what are the rules?Are symmetries for hand and brain associated with characteristics such as intelligence, motor skill, spatial reasoning or skill at sports?In this follow up to the influential Left, Right Hand and Brain (1985)…
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