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Behavioral Lateralization in Vertebrates

Two Sides of the Same Coin

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Editors:
  1. Davide Csermely

    1. , Department of Evolutionary and Functiona, University of Parma, Parma, Italy

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  2. Lucia Regolin

    1. , Department of General Psychology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy, Padua, Italy

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  • Provides an overview of the research on lateralisation in vertebrates

  • The chapters, arranged in phylogenetic order, cover almost all vertebrate classes from bony fishes to mammals

  • Stimulates future research in this topic

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Davide Csermely
    Pages 1-8

  3. The Effect of Sex and Early Environment on the Lateralization of the Rainbowfish Melanotaenia duboulayi

    • Anne-Laurence Bibost, Erin Kydd, Culum Brown
    Pages 9-24

  4. Lateralization in Lizards: Evidence of Presence in Several Contexts

    • Beatrice Bonati, Davide Csermely
    Pages 25-38

  5. Advantages of a Lateralised Brain for Reasoning About the Social World in Chicks

    • Lucia Regolin, Jonathan N. Daisley, Orsola Rosa Salva, Giorgio Vallortigara
    Pages 39-54

  6. Avian Visual Pseudoneglect: The Effect of Age and Sex on Visuospatial Side Biases

    • Christiane Wilzeck, Debbie M. Kelly
    Pages 55-70

  7. Lateralised Social Learning in Chicks

    • Orsola Rosa Salva, Lucia Regolin, Giorgio Vallortigara
    Pages 71-86

  8. Organisational and Activational Effects of Prenatal Exposure to Testosterone on Lateralisation in the Domestic Chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus)

    • Bernd J. Riedstra, Kristina A. Pfannkuche, Antonius G. G. Groothuis
    Pages 87-105

  9. Navigating Through an Asymmetrical Brain: Lateralisation and Homing in Pigeon

    • Tommaso Pecchia, Anna Gagliardo, Caterina Filannino, Paolo Ioalè, Giorgio Vallortigara
    Pages 107-124

  10. The Right Hand Man: Manual Laterality and Language

    • Gillian S. Forrester, Caterina Quaresmini
    Pages 125-141

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 143-149
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About this book

Functional lateralization in the human brain was first identified in the classic observations by Broca in the 19th century. Only one hundred years later, however, research on this topic began anew, discovering that humans share brain lateralization not only with other mammals, but with other vertebrates and even invertebrates. Studies on lateralization have also received considerable attention in recent years due to their important evolutionary implications, becoming an important and flourishing field of investigation worldwide among ethnologists and psychologists.

The chapters of this book concern the emergence and adaptive function of lateralization in several aspects of behavior for a wide range of vertebrate taxa. These studies span from how lateralization affects some aspects of fitness in fishes, or how it affects the predatory and the exploratory behavior of lizards, to navigation in the homing flights of pigeons, social learning in chicks, the influence of lateralization on the ontogeny process of chicks, and the similarity of manual lateralization (handedness) between humans and apes, our closest relatives.

Editors and Affiliations

  • , Department of Evolutionary and Functiona, University of Parma, Parma, Italy

    Davide Csermely

  • , Department of General Psychology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy, Padua, Italy

    Lucia Regolin

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Behavioral Lateralization in Vertebrates

  • Book Subtitle: Two Sides of the Same Coin

  • Editors: Davide Csermely, Lucia Regolin

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30203-9

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-30202-2Published: 17 July 2012

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-44480-7Published: 09 August 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-30203-9Published: 16 July 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 152

  • Topics: Behavioral Sciences, Neurosciences

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