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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)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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
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, Department of Evolutionary and Functiona, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
Davide Csermely
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, 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