Brain lateralization and cognitive capacity

LJ Rogers - Animals, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary We used to think of brains as symmetrical, functioning in the same way on
the left and right sides, but we now know that this is not so. From the small brains of insects …

[HTML][HTML] The evolution of social play in songbirds, parrots and cockatoos-emotional or highly complex cognitive behaviour or both?

G Kaplan - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Social play has been described in many animals. However, much of this social behaviour
among birds, particularly in adults, is still relatively unexplored in terms of the environmental …

Evolution of Human Brain Left–Right Asymmetry: Old Genes with New Functions

J Wang, S Ma, P Yu, X He - Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The human brain is generally anatomically symmetrical, boasting mirror-like brain regions in
the left and right hemispheres. Despite this symmetry, fine-scale structural asymmetries are …

The evolution and biological correlates of hand preferences in anthropoid primates

KR Caspar, F Pallasdies, L Mader, H Sartorelli… - elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
The evolution of human right-handedness has been intensively debated for decades.
Manual lateralization patterns in non-human primates have the potential to elucidate …

Limb preference in animals: new insights into the evolution of manual laterality in hominids

G Boulinguez-Ambroise, J Aychet, E Pouydebat - Symmetry, 2022 - mdpi.com
Until the 1990s, the notion of brain lateralization—the division of labor between the two
hemispheres—and its more visible behavioral manifestation, handedness, remained fiercely …

Hemispheric asymmetries and brain size in mammals

S Ocklenburg, Y El Basbasse, F Ströckens… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Hemispheric asymmetries differ considerably across species, but the neurophysiological
base of this variation is unclear. It has been suggested that hemispheric asymmetries …

Behavioral laterality is correlated with problem-solving performance in a songbird

J Yin, G Yu, J Zhang, J Li - Animal Cognition, 2023 - Springer
Cerebral lateralization, which is often reflected in an individual's behavioral laterality (eg,
handedness and footedness), may bring animals certain benefits such as enhanced …

Modulation of behavioural laterality in wild New Caledonian crows (Corvus moneduloides): Vocalization, age and function

C Mack, N Uomini - Laterality, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The New Caledonian crow (Corvus moneduloides) is known for displaying a
unique set of tool-related behaviours, with the bird's bill acting as an individually consistently …

Cognitive and neurophysiological models of brain asymmetry

S Ocklenburg, O Güntürkün - Symmetry, 2022 - mdpi.com
Asymmetry is an inherent characteristic of brain organization in both humans and other
vertebrate species, and is evident at the behavioral, neurophysiological, and structural …

Hemispheric asymmetries and brain size: A cross-species meta-regression

S Ocklenburg, Y El Basbasse, F Ströckens… - 2022 - researchsquare.com
Hemispheric asymmetries differ considerably across species, but the neurophysiological
base of this variation is unclear. It has been suggested that hemispheric asymmetries …