“…The present issue focuses on Hemispheric Asymmetries in the Auditory Domain , a topic which has given rise to a huge amount of scientific work utilizing behavioral, neuropsychological, electrophysiological, and neuroimaging techniques (Bryden, 1963 ; Kimura, 1963 ; Brancucci et al, 2004 , 2012 ; Prete et al, 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2018a ; D'Anselmo et al, 2016 , 2018 ), possibly as auditory functions, as well as their underlying biological networks, are the most lateralized in the brain. The literature ranges from the study of the asymmetric processing during tasks on simple auditory stimuli (Brancucci and San Martini, 1999 , 2003 ; Behne et al, 2005 ; Brancucci et al, 2005a ; Brechmann and Scheich, 2005 ; Angenstein and Brechmann, 2013a , b ; Brechmann and Angenstein, 2019 ), to the differential specialization of the hemispheres in the various aspects of language (Behne et al, 2006 ; Della Penna et al, 2007 ; Brancucci et al, 2008a ; D'Anselmo et al, 2013 ; Wendt et al, 2021 ), to the latest evidence of asymmetries arising during social interactions (Brancucci et al, 2009 ). However, several points remain to be clarified, and there are still some unanswered questions, such as different plasticity processes in the two hemispheres especially with respect to clinical conditions, asymmetric functions of attention, and different asymmetric processes in language and music processing.…”