Motor-sensory biases are associated with cognitive and social abilities in humans

G Donati, T Edginton, A Bardo, TL Kivell, H Ballieux… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Across vertebrates, adaptive behaviors, like feeding and avoiding predators, are linked to
lateralized brain function. The presence of the behavioral manifestations of these biases are …

Correlation of behavioural laterality with learning performance of scatter-hoarding rodents

X Cui, W Niu, X Yi - Animal Behaviour, 2024 - Elsevier
Highlights•Are lateralization and learning ability correlated in scatter-hoarding
rodents?•Three squirrel species showed no apparent lateralization at species …

[HTML][HTML] Behavioural lateralization covaries with sex and inhibitory controlin the common waxbill

PM Santos, P Beltrão, BC Saldanha, ACR Gomes… - Animal Behaviour, 2024 - Elsevier
Behavioural lateralization is widespread across animal taxa. Consistent with the idea that
lateralization indicates advantageous specialization of the brain hemispheres, individuals …

Asymmetry in synaptic connectivity balances redundancy and reachability in the Caenorhabditis elegans connectome

VS Birari, I Rabinowitch - iScience, 2024 - cell.com
The brain is overall bilaterally symmetrical, but also exhibits considerable asymmetry. While
symmetry may endow neural networks with robustness and resilience, asymmetry may …

Are lateralized and bold fish optimistic or pessimistic?

F Berlinghieri, G Rizzuto, L Kruizinga, B Riedstra… - Animal cognition, 2024 - Springer
Cognitive bias is defined as the influence of emotions on cognitive processes. The concept
of the cognitive judgement bias has its origins in human psychology but has been applied to …

Collective behaviors of animal groups may stem from visual lateralization—Tending to obtain information through one eye

J Gao, C Gu, Y Long, X Zhang, C Shen… - … Journal of Nonlinear …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Animal groups exhibit various captivating movement patterns, which manifest as intricate
interactions among group members. Several models have been proposed to elucidate …

The effect of light during embryonic development on laterality and exploration in Western Rainbowfish

F Berlinghieri, N Jansen, B Riedstra, C Brown… - Laterality, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Several factors affect the development of lateralization such as hormones and light exposure
during early development. Laterality also often correlates with other behavioral traits. To …

Lateralization of Brain Function

LJ Rogers - Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology, 2024 - oxfordre.com
The left and right hemispheres of the brain process sensory information in different ways and
function differently in controlling behavior. This lateralization of brain function, originally …

Do sulphur-crested cockatoos (Cacatua galerita) call the weather?

ML Gillies, C Brown - Australian Journal of Zoology, 2024 - CSIRO Publishing
Storms can have significant impacts on wildlife and many animals, including birds, can
predict a storm's arrival and change their behaviour accordingly. Storms are often …

[HTML][HTML] Behavioural lateralisation of swans in response to anthropogenic disturbance differs according to the locomotion type

EM Zaynagutdinova, DR Polikarpova… - Nature Conservation …, 2024 - cyberleninka.ru
The European population of Cygnus columbianus bewickii has a declining trend in number
of individuals. Anthropogenic disturbance could be one of the reasons for this decline …