Sleep supports memory consolidation. Based on studies in mammals, sleep-dependent
consolidation has been conceptualized as 'active system consolidation'. During waking …

Abstract Language as a computational cognitive mechanism appears to be unique to the
human species. However, there are remarkable behavioral similarities between song …

Our goal in this chapter is to provide a concise introduction to the study of left–right
asymmetries in brain and behavior from a comparative perspective. We consider evidence …

The Clinical Neuroscience of Lateralization gives the first comprehensive transdiagnostic
overview of the evidence for changes in hemispheric asymmetries in different psychiatric …

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 …

Historically, grief and spirituality have been jealously guarded as uniquely human
experiences. Although non-human animal grief has been acknowledged in recent times, its …

Songbirds provide a model for adult plasticity in the auditory cortex as a function of recent
experience due to parallels with human auditory processing. As for speech processing in …

Converging evidence implicates the intermediate and medial mesopallium (IMM) of the
domestic chick forebrain in memory for a visual imprinting stimulus. During and after …

Cerebral specialization and inter-hemispheric cooperation are two of the most prominent
functional architectures of the human brain. Their dysfunctions may be related to …

The formation of memories within the vertebrate brain is lateralized between hemispheres
across multiple modalities. However, in invertebrates evidence for lateralization is restricted …