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Right hand, Left hand: From culture and symbols to atoms

Speaker: Chris McManus
27th April 2002

Right and left-handedness are found at every level of the universe from left-handed sub-atomic particles such as neutrinos, and left-handed amino-acids of which we are made, through our bodies with their left-sided heart, and our brains in which language is usually in the left hemisphere, up to the right-left symbolisms which permeate so much of cultural and symbolic activity. This talk will explore their interconnections.

Chris McManus, author of Right Hand, Left Hand: The origins of asymmetry in brain, bodies, atoms and cultures (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2002), is Professor of Psychology and Medical Education at University College London.

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