CHIMPANZEES are an indecisive bunch. Humanity's nearest relatives are just as likely to peel a banana with their left hand as with their right. People, on the other hand, usually have a preference.

A study by the HSE Centre for Language and Brain has confirmed the role of the corpus callosum in language lateralisation, ie the distribution of language processing functions between the brain's ...

Most people know that humans are mostly right-handed, but fewer realise that many animals also show similar side preferences. This natural bias, known as handedness or lateralisation, plays an ...

Research into handedness and bimanual coordination in nonhuman primates sheds valuable light on the evolutionary origins of motor lateralisation and its neural correlates. This field examines how ...

HANDICRAFTS were never my strong point at school. For each project I attempted, I’d struggle with tools and techniques that didn’t suit a left-hander like me, which often made me wonder why humans are ...