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Online-Ressource (VIII, 149 p. 20 illus., 7 illus. in color, digital)
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9783642302039
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SpringerLink
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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.
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Behavioral Lateralizationin Vertebrates; Preface; Contents; 1 Introduction; Abstract; References; 2 The Effect of Sex and Early Environment on the Lateralization of the Rainbowfish Melanotaenia duboulayi; Abstract; 1…Introduction; 2…Materials and Methods; 2.1 Housing and Stock; 2.2 Protocol and Experimental Apparatus; 2.2.1 Experiment 1: Radial Maze Task; 2.2.2 Experiment 2: Flume Test; 2.3 Data Analysis; 3…Results; 3.1 Experiment 1: Radial Maze Task; 3.2 Experiment 2: Flume Test; 4…Discussion; References; 3 Lateralization in Lizards: Evidence of Presence in Several Contexts; Abstract
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1…Introduction2…Focusing the Attention: Predatory Behaviour; 3…Fearful Stimulus: Antipredatory Behaviour; 4…Spatial Processing and Global Attention: Exploratory Behaviour; 5…Preying with the Right Eye and Vigilance with the Left Eye: The Simultaneous Control of multiple Task?; 6…General Discussion; Acknowledgments; References; 4 Advantages of a Lateralised Brain for Reasoning About the Social World in Chicks; Abstract; 1…The Challenges of Animal Social Living and Hierarchy Formation; 2…Transitive Inference in Animal Species
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3…Lateralisation in a Transitive Inference Learning Task in the Domestic Chick3.1 Transitive Inference Learning Tasks and Social Ranks Establishing; 4…Converging Evidence on the Role of the Right Hemisphere from Other Social Recognition Behaviours; 5…Concluding Remarks; References; 5 Avian Visual Pseudoneglect: The Effect of Age and Sex on Visuospatial Side Biases; Abstract; 1…Paying More Attention to One Side of Space: Avian Visual Pseudoneglect; 2…The Neural Organisation Underlying Pseudoneglect; 3…How Age Might Influence Spatial Attention; Acknowledgments; References
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1…Introduction2…Material and Methods; 2.1 Animals and Housing; 2.2 Hormone Analysis; 2.3 Prenatal Hormone Treatment; 2.4 Plasma Testosterone Levels in 22-Week-Old Chickens; 2.5 Lateralisation Tests; 2.6 Statistical Analyses; 3…Results; 3.1 Direction and Strength of Lateralisation in the Young Domestic Chicks; 3.2 Direction and Strength of Lateralisation in Adult Chickens; 3.3 Plasma Testosterone Levels in 22-Week-Old Chickens; 4…Discussion; 4.1 Effects of Prenatal Testosterone; 4.2 Activating Effects; 4.3 Individual Consistency Over Time; 4.4 Direction of Lateralisation; 4.5 Conclusion
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Acknowledgments
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6 Lateralised Social Learning in ChicksAbstract; 1…Social Learning; 1.1 Learning to Forage; 1.2 Learning to Avoid; 2…Studies on Functional Lateralisation of Learning and Memory in the PAL Task; 2.1 The PAL Task and the Investigation of Lateralisation in Memory Formation; 2.2 A Time-Dependent Model of Lateralisation in Memory Formation; 3…Studies on Lateralisation of Social Learning of Pecking Avoidance; 4…Concluding Remarks; References; 7 Organisational and Activational Effects of Prenatal Exposure to Testosterone on Lateralisation in the Domestic Chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus); Abstract
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9783642302022
Weitere Ausg.:
Buchausg. u.d.T. Behavioral lateralization in vertebrates Berlin : Springer, 2013 ISBN 3642302025
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9783642302022
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9783642444807
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Biologie
Schlagwort(e):
Wirbeltiere
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Lateralität
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Verhalten
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Konferenzschrift
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-642-30203-9
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