Behavioral Lateralization in Vertebrates Two Sides of the Same Coin /

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 vertebr...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Csermely, Davide. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Regolin, Lucia. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Edition:1st ed. 2013.
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30203-9
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The Effect of Sex and Early Environment on the Lateralization of the Rainbowfish Melanotaenia duboulayi
  • Lateralization in Lizards: Evidence of Presence in Several Contexts
  • Advantages of a Lateralized Brain for Reasoning about the Social World in Chicks
  • Avian Visual Pseudoneglect: The Effect of Age and Sex on Visuospatial Side Biases
  • Lateralized Social Learning in Chicks
  • Organizational and Activational Effects of Prenatal Exposure to Testosterone on Lateralization in the Domestic Chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus)
  • Navigating Through an Asymmetrical Brain: Lateralization and Homing in Pigeon
  • The Right Hand Man: Manual Laterality and Language.