Where next for laterality research? Looking back and looking forward.

Alan A Beaton, Gareth Richards
Author Information
  1. Alan A Beaton: Department of Psychology, School of Human & Health Sciences, Swansea University, Swansea, UK.
  2. Gareth Richards: School of Psychology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. ORCID

Abstract

While paying attention to the recommendations of Ocklenburg, Berretz, Packheiser, and Friedrich (2020) in the target article, researchers in the field of laterality should attempt to: (1) solve the long-standing puzzle of the relationship between handedness and language lateralization; (2) further explore the genetic bases of manual and cerebral asymmetry and of their associations with psychiatric and neurodevelopmental conditions; (3) explore the adaptive significance of laterality for humans and non-humans and elucidate the relationships of asymmetry across species; and (4) embrace developing technologies to investigate the interaction between the hemispheres during the performance of everyday tasks.

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Functional Laterality
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