Laterality entering the next decade – The 25th anniversary of a journal devoted to asymmetries of brain, behaviour and cognition

Abstract

<p>In 1996, Phil Bryden, Mike Corballis, and Chris McManus released the first issue of <i>Laterality</i>. These founding editors pointed out in their editorial how surprisingly long it took to have a journal devoted entirely to laterality, its unanswered questions and wide-ranging problems. They mentioned leftright asymmetries inside sub-atomic structures, the pharmacology of chiral molecules, anatomical asymmetries of the viscera, Broca’s discovery of the left-brain dominance in language production, and the relation of these to handedness and other lateralised functions.</p>