Brain asymmetry (animal)

G Vallortigara, C Chiandetti… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Once considered a uniquely human attribute, brain asymmetry has been proved to be
ubiquitous among non‐human animals. A synthetic review of evidence of animal …

From natural geometry to spatial cognition

L Tommasi, C Chiandetti, T Pecchia… - Neuroscience & …, 2012 - Elsevier
A review of selected works on spatial memory in animals and humans is presented, and
some ideas about the encoding of geometry and its role in evolution are presented, based …

The hunter-gatherer theory of sex differences in spatial abilities: Data from 40 countries

I Silverman, J Choi, M Peters - Archives of sexual behavior, 2007 - Springer
This study used some of the data from the BBC Internet study to assess the universality of
sex related spatial competencies, as these are described in the terms of Silverman and …

Evidence of separable spatial representations in a virtual navigation task.

K Gramann, HJ Müller, EM Eick… - Journal of Experimental …, 2005 - psycnet.apa.org
Three experiments investigated spatial orientation in a virtual navigation task. Subjects had
to adjust a homing vector indicating their end position relative to the origin of the path. It was …

Separate geometric and non-geometric modules for spatial reorientation: Evidence from a lopsided animal brain

G Vallortigara, P Pagni, VA Sovrano - Journal of Cognitive …, 2004 - direct.mit.edu
Research has proved that disoriented children and nonhuman animals can reorient
themselves using geometric and nongeometric features of the environment, showing …

A penny for your thoughts! Patterns of fMRI activity reveal the content and the spatial topography of visual mental images

M Boccia, L Piccardi, L Palermo, F Nemmi… - Human Brain …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Visual mental imagery is a complex process that may be influenced by the content of mental
images. Neuropsychological evidence from patients with hemineglect suggests that in the …

Human spatial navigation deficits after traumatic brain injury shown in the arena maze, a virtual Morris water maze

RW Skelton, SP Ross, L Nerad, SA Livingstone - Brain Injury, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Objective: Survivors of traumatic brain injury (TBI) often have spatial navigation deficits. This
study examined such deficits and conducted a detailed analysis of navigational behaviour in …

Pure representational neglect after right thalamic lesion

S Ortigue, I Viaud‐Delmon, JM Annoni… - Annals of Neurology …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
After a right thalamic stroke, an 86‐year‐old man presented an acute pure left
representational neglect in the absence of any perceptual neglect. On spatial mental …

Visual and cognitive perspective-taking impairments in schizophrenia: A failure of allocentric simulation?

R Langdon, M Coltheart, PB Ward… - Cognitive …, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction. Poor mentalising in some patients with schizophrenia has been attributed to
disruption of a cognitive module dedicated to computing meta-representations …

Animals as natural geometers

G Vallortigara - 2009 - direct.mit.edu
In 1994 Hermer and Spelke compared human adults and young children in a task modeled
on tasks previously developed by comparative psychologists—most notably by Cheng …