survival with an asymmetrical brain: advantages and disadvantages of cerebral lateralization

By Giorgio Vallortigara, Lesley J. Rogers. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2005

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Geometry and Topology, Social Psychology

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Marco Dadda
2. Angelo Bisazza
3. P. Hurd
4. A. Reddon
5. Giorgio Vallortigara
6. Lucia Regolin
7. H. Rutherford
8. Elena Mascalzoni

In Geometry and Topology

1. Marco Dadda
2. Angelo Bisazza
3. P. Hurd
4. A. Reddon
5. Giorgio Vallortigara

In Social Psychology

1. P. Hurd
2. A. Reddon
3. A. Schore
4. Angelo Bisazza
5. Marco Dadda
6. H. Rutherford
7. Giorgio Vallortigara
8. Gay A. Bradshaw

Citations in the corpus

• Cerebral and behavioural assymetries in animal social recognition (2012, background): “It is now well established that brain asymmetries occur throughout the animal kingdom ( Rogers and Andrew , 2002 ; Vallortigara and Rogers , 2005 ; MacNeilage , Rogers and Val - lortigara , 2009 ; Vallortigara , Chiandetti and Sovrano , 2010 ) .”
• Lateralized female topminnows can forage and attend to a harassing male simultaneously (2006, background): “Some authors have suggested that in LAT animals, advantages provided by enhanced cognitive capacity and efficiency of the brain might be counteracted by ecological disadvantages of lateral biases in behavior ( Vallortigara and Rogers, 2005 ).”
• Individual differences in cerebral lateralization are associated with shy–bold variation in the convict cichlid (2009, positive): “Cerebral lateralization appears to be ubiquitous among the vertebrates (Vallortigara & Rogers 2005) and probably predates their evolution (Pascual et al. 2004; Letzkus et al. 2006; Letzkus et al. 2008; Rogers & Vallortigara 2008).”
• How Elephants are Opening Doors: Developmental Neuroethology, Attachment and Social Context (2007, background): “For example, epigenetic mechanisms contributing to brain lateralization and hemispheric specialization can offer an evolutionary advantage in survival (Vallortigara & Rogers 2005).”
• The influence of early experience on, and inheritance of, cerebral lateralization (2007, neutral): “…situations where group coordination is essential for survival, such selection should be acting in a frequency-dependent manner across the entire population, selecting for compatible behavioural asymmetries across all group members (Billiard et al. 2005; Brown 2005; Vallortigara & Rogers 2005).”
• Sniffing with the right nostril: Lateralization of response to odour stimuli by dogs (2011, background): “Brain lateralization, both structural and functional, has been observed in several nonhuman species (Bradshaw & Rogers 1993; Rogers & Andrew 2002; Vallortigara & Rogers 2005), including canine species (Wells 2003; Quaranta et al. 2004, 2007; Siniscalchi et al. 2008, 2010a; Guo et al. 2009).”
• Does brain asymmetry allow efficient performance of simultaneous tasks (2006, background): “Vallortigara & Rogers (2005) suggested that these lefteright differences may represent an important disadvantage associated with having an asymmetric brain.”
• Thriving and Surviving: Approach and Avoidance Motivation and Lateralization (2011, background): “The lateralization of approach behavior is similarly evident across species, with feeding responses and predatory attacks showing a rightward bias in toads, birds, and fish (see Vallortigara & Rogers, 2005, for review), suggesting left-hemisphere control of approach behavior systems.”