2019

• Mayer, U., Rosa-Salva, O., Loveland, J.L., Vallortigara, G. (2019). Selective response of the nucleus taeniae of the amygdala to a naturalistic social stimulus in visually naive domestic chicks (Gallus gallus). Frontiers in Physiology, in press.

2018

• Andrea Gazzola, Giorgio Vallortigara, Daniele Pellitteri-Rosa. (2018) Continuous and discrete quantity discrimination in tortoises, Biology Letters.14

• Elisa Frasnelli, Giorgio Vallortigara. (2018) Individual-Level and Population-Level Lateralization: Two Sides of the Same Coin, Symmetry, 10, 739.

• Orsola Rosa-Salva, Jozsef Fiser, Elisabetta Versace, Carola Dolci, Sarah Chehaimi, Chiara Santolin, Giorgio Vallortigara. (2018) Spontaneous Learning of Visual Structures in Domestic Chicks, Animals, 8, 135.

• Alexandra K. Schnell, Cécile Bellanger, Giorgio Vallortigara, Christelle Jozet-Alves. (2018) Visual asymmetries in cuttlefish during brightness matching for camouflage, Current Biology, 28: 925-926.

• Versace, E., Martinho-Truswel, A., Kacelnik, A., Vallortigara, G. (2018). Priors in animal and artificial intelligence: Where does learning begin? Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

• De Tommaso, M., Kaplan, G., Chiandetti, C., Vallortigara, G. (2018). Naïve 3-day-old domestic chicks (Gallus gallus) are attracted to discrete acoustic patterns characterizing natural vocalizations. Journal of Comparative Psychology.

• Stancher, G., Sovrano, V.A., Vallortigara, G. (2018). Motor asymmetries in fishes, amphibians and reptiles, in ‘Cerebral Lateralization and Cognition: Evolutionary and Developmental Investigations of Behavioral Biases’. Progress in Brain Research, Vol. 238, pp. 35-56.

• Chiandetti, C., Vallortigara, G. (2018). Chicken – Cognition in the Poultry Yard. In Field and Laboratory Methods in Animal Cognition. A Comparative Guide. (N. Bueno-Guerra, F. Amici, Eds.), pp. 97-106, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K. DOI: 10.1017/9781108333191

• Bertamini, M., & Guest, M., & Vallortigara, & G. Rugani, & R., Regolin, L. (2018). The effect of clustering on perceived quantity in humans (Homo sapiens) and in chicks (Gallus gallus). Journal of Comparative Psychology, in press.

• Butterworth B, Gallistel CR, Vallortigara G. (2018) Introduction: The origins of numerical abilities Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci Feb 19;373(1740). pii: 20160507. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0507.

• Rosa-Salva O, Hernik M, Broseghini A, Vallortigara G. (2018) Visually-naïve chicks prefer agents that move as if constrained by a bilateral body-plan Cognition Jan 19;173:106-114. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2018.01.004

• Sgadò P, Rosa-Salva O, Versace E, Vallortigara G. (2018)Embryonic Exposure to Valproic Acid Impairs Social Predispositions of Newly-Hatched Chicks. Sci Rep. 2018 Apr 12;8(1):5919. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-24202-8

• Vallortigara G. (2018). Comparative cognition of number and space: the case of geometry and of the mental number line. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci.

• Vallortigara, G., Versace, E. (2018). Filial imprinting. In J. Vonk & T. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. Springer International Publishing.

• Versace E, Damini S, Caffini M, Stancher G. (2018) Born to be asocial: newly-hatched tortoises spontaneously avoid unfamiliar individuals Anim Behav In press

2017

• Andrione M, Timberlake BF, Vallortigara G, Antolini R, Haase A. (2017) Morphofunctional experience-dependent plasticity in the honeybee brain Learn Mem 2017 Nov 15;24(12):622-629. doi: 10.1101/lm.046243.117. Print 2017 Dec.

• Frasnelli E., Vallortigara G. (2017). Distribution of antennal olfactory and non-olfactory sensilla in different species of bees. Symmetry. Jul;doi:10.3390/sym9080135

• Lee SA, Tucci V, Vallortigara G. (2017). Spatial impairment and memory in genetic disorders: insights from mouse models. Brain sciences. Feb; doi:10.3390/brainsci7020017

• Lorenzi E, Mayer U, Rosa-Salva O, Vallortigara G. (2017). Dynamic features of animate motion activate septal and preoptic areas in visually naïve chicks (Gallus gallus). Neuroscience. 2017 Jun 23;354:54-68. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2017.04.022. Epub 2017 Apr 25.

• Mayer U, Bhushan R, Vallortigara G, Lee SA. (2017) Representation of environmental shape in the hippocampus of domestic chicks (Gallus gallus). Brain Struct Funct. 2017 Oct 14. doi: 10.1007/s00429-017-1537-5.

• Mayer U, Rosa-Salva O, Morbioli F, Vallortigara G. (2017). The motion of a living conspecific activates septal and preoptic areas in naive domestic chicks (Gallus gallus). Eur J Neurosci. 2017 Feb;45(3):423-432. doi: 10.1111/ejn.13484. 

• Mayer U, Rosa-Salva O, Vallortigara G. (2017). First exposure to an alive conspecific activates septal and amygdaloid nuclei in visually-naïve domestic chicks (Gallus gallus). Behav Brain Res. Jan 15;317:71-81. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2016.09.031.

• Rugani R, Vallortigara G, Priftis K, Regolin L. (2017). Experimental evidence from newborn chicks enriches our knowledge on human spatial-numerical associations.Cogn Sci 2017 Nov;41(8):2275-2279. doi: 10.1111/cogs.12523. Epub 2017 Oct 11.

• Vallortigara G. (2017). Sentience does not require "higher" cognition. Animal Sentience 

• Versace E, Fracasso I, Baldan G, Dalle Zotte A, Vallortigara G (2017). Newborn chicks show inherited variability in early social predispositions for hen-like stimuli. Sci Rep. 2017 Jan 24;7:40296. doi: 10.1038/srep40296.

• Versace E, Spierings MJ, Caffini M, Ten Cate C, Vallortigara G. (2017). Spontaneous generalization of abstract multimodal patterns in young domestic chicks. Anim Cogn. 2017 Mar 4. doi: 10.1007/s10071-017-1079-5

2016

• Andrione M, Vallortigara G, Antolini R, Haase A. (2016) Neonicotinoid-induced impairment of odour coding in the honeybee. Sci Rep. 2016 Dec 1;6:38110. doi: 10.1038/srep38110

• Bischof HJ, Eckmeier D, Keary N, Löwel S, Mayer U, Michael N (2016). Multiple Visual Field Representations in the Visual Wulst of a Laterally Eyed Bird, the Zebra Finch (Taeniopygia guttata). PLoS One. May 3;11(5):e0154927. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0154927.

• Di Giorgio, E., Loveland, J.L., Mayer, U. Rosa-Salva, O., Versace, E. Vallortigara, G. (2016). Filial responses as predisposed and learned preferences: Early attachment in chicks and babies. Behavioural and Brain Research

• Di Giorgio E, Lunghi M, Simion F, Vallortigara G (2016). Visual cues of motion that trigger animacy perception at birth: the case of self-propulsion. Dev Sci. Feb 21. doi: 10.1111/desc.12394.

• Di Giorgio E, Frasnelli E, Rosa Salva O, Maria Luisa S, Puopolo M, Tosoni D; NIDA-Network, Simion F, Vallortigara G (2016). Difference in Visual Social Predispositions Between Newborns at Low- and High-risk for Autism. Sci Rep. May 20;6:26395. doi: 10.1038/srep26395.

• Di Giorgio E, Frasnelli E, Rosa Salva O, Scattoni ML, Puopolo M, Tosoni D; NIDA-Network., Simion F, Vallortigara G. (2016). Corrigendum: Difference in Visual Social Predispositions Between Newborns at Low- and High-risk for Autism. Sci Rep. Jul 18;6:29860. doi: 10.1038/srep29860.

• Girotto V, Fontanari L, Gonzalez M, Vallortigara G, Blaye A (2016). Young children do not succeed in choice tasks that imply evaluating chances. Cognition. Jul;152:32-9. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2016.03.010.

• Jacobs J, Lee SA (2016).Spatial Cognition: Grid Cells Support Imagined Navigation. Curr Biol. Apr 4;26(7):R277-9. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.02.032.

• Mayer U, Pecchia T, Bingman VP, Flore M, Vallortigara G (2016). Hippocampus and medial striatum dissociation during goal navigation by geometry or features in the domestic chick: An immediate early gene study. Hippocampus. Jan;26(1):27-40. doi: 10.1002/hipo.22486.

• Mayer U, Rosa-Salva O, Lorenzi E, Vallortigara G (2016). Social predisposition dependent neuronal activity in the intermediate medial mesopallium of domestic chicks (Gallus gallus domesticus). Behav Brain Res. May 9;310:93-102. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2016.05.019.

• Mayer U, Rosa-Salva O, Morbioli F, Vallortigara G. (2016). The motion of a living conspecific activates septal and preoptic areas in naive domestic chicks (Gallus gallus). Eur J Neurosci. Nov 22. doi: 10.1111/ejn.13484.

• Paoli M, Anesi A, Antolini R, Guella G, Vallortigara G, Haase A (2016). Differential Odour Coding of Isotopomers in the Honeybee Brain. Sci Rep. Feb 22;6:21893. doi: 10.1038/srep21893.

• Regaiolli B, Spiezio C, Vallortigara G (2016). Manual lateralization in macaques: handedness, target laterality and task complexity. Laterality. 21(2):100-17. doi: 10.1080/1357650X.2015.1076834.

• Rogers LJ, Frasnelli E, Versace E. (2016) Lateralized antennal control of aggression and sex differences in red mason bees, Osmia bicornis. Sci Rep. Jul 8;6:29411. doi: 10.1038/srep29411.

• Rosa-Salva O, Grassi M, Lorenzi E, Regolin L, Vallortigara G. (2016). Spontaneous preference for visual cues of animacy in naïve domestic chicks: The case of speed changes. Cognition. Dec;157:49-60. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2016.08.014.

• Rugani R, McCrink K, de Hevia MD, Vallortigara G, Regolin L. (2016). Ratio abstraction over discrete magnitudes by newly hatched domestic chicks (Gallus gallus). Sci Rep. Jul 28;6:30114. doi: 10.1038/srep30114.

• Rugani R, Vallortigara G, Priftis K, Regolin L (2016). Response: "Newborn chicks need no number tricks. Commentary: Number-space mapping in the newborn chick resembles humans' mental number line". Front Hum Neurosci. Feb 5;10:31. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2016.00031.

• Rugani R, Vallortigara G, Priftis K, Regolin L (2016). Piece of Evidence. Commentary: Ancestral Mental Number Lines: What Is the Evidence? Front Psychol. Apr 22;7:553. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00553.

• Rugani, R., Vallortigara, G., Regolin, L. (2016). Mapping number to space in the two hemispheres of the avian brain. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Neurobiol Learn Mem. 2016 May 28;133:13-18. doi: 10.1016/j.nlm.2016.05.010.

• Santolin C, Rosa-Salva O, Vallortigara G, Regolin L. (2016) Unsupervised statistical learning in newly hatched chicks. Curr Biol. Dec 5;26(23):R1218-R1220. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.10.011.

• Santolin, C., Rosa-Salva, O., Regolin, L., Vallortigara, G. (2016). Generalization of visual regularities in newly-hatched chicks (Gallus gallus). Animal Cognition. 2016 Jun 10; doi: 10.1007/s10071-016-1005-2.

• Schlötterer C, Kofler R, Versace E, Tobler R, Franssen SU (2016). Combining experimental evolution with next-generation sequencing: a powerful tool to study adaptation from standing genetic variation. Heredity (Edinb). Feb;116(2):248. doi: 10.1038/hdy.2015.85.

• Sovrano VA, Bertolucci C, Frigato E, Foà A, Rogers LJ (2016). Influence of exposure in ovo to different light wavelengths on the lateralization of social response in zebrafish larvae. Physiol Behav. Apr 1;157:258-64. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2016.02.016.

• Sovrano VA, da Pos O, Albertazzi L (2016). The Müller-Lyer illusion in the teleost fish Xenotoca eiseni. Anim Cogn. Jan;19(1):123-32. doi: 10.1007/s10071-015-0917-6.

• Spiezio C, Regaiolli B, Vallortigara G (2016). Motor and postural asymmetries in marsupials: Forelimb preferences in the red-necked wallaby (Macropus rufogriseus). Behav Processes. May 2;128:119-125. doi: 10.1016/j.beproc.2016.04.019.

• Vallortigara G, Rosa Salva O (2016). Toolkits for cognition: From core-knowledge to genes. In Tucci, V. (Ed.) Neurophenome: Cutting-edge Approaches and Technologies in Neurobehavioral Genetics, Wiley-Blackwell. In press

• Versace E, Eriksson A, Rocchi F, Castellan I, Sgadò P, Haase A (2016). Physiological and behavioral responses in Drosophila melanogaster to odorants present at different plant maturation stages. Physiol Behav. May 16. pii: S0031-9384(16)30265-7. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2016.05.027.

• Versace E, Schill J, Nencini AM, Vallortigara G. (2016). Naïve Chicks Prefer Hollow Objects. PLoS One. 2016 Nov 16;11(11):e0166425. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0166425.

2015

• Chiandetti C, Spelke ES, Vallortigara G (2015). Inexperienced newborn chicks use geometry to spontaneously reorient to an artificial social partner. Dev Sci. 18(6):972-8. doi: 10.1111/desc.12277.

• Lee SA, Ferrari A, Vallortigara G, Sovrano VA (2015). Boundary primacy in spatial mapping: Evidence from zebrafish (Danio rerio). Behav Processes. 119:116-22. doi: 10.1016/j.beproc.2015.07.012.

• Lee SA, Tucci V, Sovrano VA, Vallortigara G (2015). Working memory and reference memory tests of spatial navigation in mice (Mus musculus). J Comp Psychol. 129(2):189-97. doi: 10.1037/a0039129.

• Mayer U, Pecchia T, Bingman VP, Flore M, Vallortigara G (2015). Hippocampus and medial striatum dissociation during goal navigation by geometry or features in the domestic chick: An immediate early gene study. Hippocampus. doi: 10.1002/hipo.22486.

• Muthalib M, Re R, Zucchelli L, Perrey S, Contini D, Caffini M, Spinelli L, Kerr G, Quaresima V, Ferrari M, Torricelli A (2015). Effects of Increasing Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation Current Intensity on Cortical Sensorimotor Network Activation: A Time Domain fNIRS Study. PLoS One. 10(7):e0131951. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0131951.

• Potrich D, Sovrano VA, Stancher G, Vallortigara G. (2015). Quantity discrimination by zebrafish (Danio rerio). Journal of Comparative Psychology http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/com0000012

• Provenzano G, Pangrazzi L, Poli A, Sgadò P, Berardi N, Bozzi Y (2015). Reduced phosphorylation of synapsin I in the hippocampus of Engrailed-2 knockout mice, a model for autism spectrum disorders. Neuroscience. 286:122-30. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2014.11.041.

• Rigosi E, Haase A, Rath L, Anfora G, Vallortigara G, Szyszka P (2015). Asymmetric neural coding revealed by in vivo calcium imaging in the honey bee brain. Proc Biol Sci. 282(1803):20142571. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2014.2571.

• Rosa Salva O, Mayer U, Vallortigara G (2015). Roots of a social brain: developmental models of emerging animacy-detection mechanisms. Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 50:150-68. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2014.12.015.

• Rugani R, Rosa Salva O, Regolin L, Vallortigara G (2015). Brain asymmetry modulates perception of biological motion in newborn chicks (Gallus gallus). Behav Brain Res. 290:1-7. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2015.04.032.

• Rugani R, Vallortigara G, Priftis K, Regolin L (2015). Animal Cognition. Response to Comments on "Number-space mapping in the newborn chick resembles humans' mental number line". Science. 348(6242):1438. doi: 10.1126/science.aab0002.

• Rugani R, Vallortigara G, Priftis K, Regolin L (2015). Animal cognition. Number-space mapping in the newborn chick resembles humans' mental number line. Science. 347(6221):534-6. doi: 10.1126/science.aaa1379.

• Rugani R, Vallortigara G, Regolin L (2015). The use of proportion by young domestic  chicks (Gallus gallus). Anim Cogn. 18(3):605-16. doi: 10.1007/s10071-014-0829-x.

• Sovrano VA, Albertazzi L, Rosa Salva O (2015). The Ebbinghaus illusion in a fish(Xenotoca eiseni). Anim Cogn. 18(2):533-42. doi: 10.1007/s10071-014-0821-5.

• Stancher G, Rugani R, Regolin L, Vallortigara G (2015). Numerical discrimination by frogs (Bombina orientalis). Anim Cogn. 18(1):219-29. doi: 10.1007/s10071-014-0791-7.

• Vallortigara G (2015). Handedness: what kangaroos tell us about our lopsided brains. Curr Biol. 25(15):R672-4. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.06.036.

• Versace E, Reisenberger J (2015). Large-scale assessment of olfactory preferences and learning in Drosophila melanogaster: behavioral and genetic components. PeerJ. 3:e1214. doi: 10.7717/peerj.1214.

• Versace E, Vallortigara G (2015). Origins of Knowledge: Insights from Precocial Species. Front. Behav. Neurosci. 9:338. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00338.

• Versace E, Vallortigara G (2015). Forelimb preferences in human beings and other species: multiple models for testing hypotheses on lateralization. Front Psychol. 6:233. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00233.

• Visani E, Canafoglia L, Gilioli I, Sebastiano DR, Contarino VE, Duran D, Panzica F, Cubeddu R, Contini D, Zucchelli L, Spinelli L, Caffini M, Molteni E, Bianchi AM, Cerutti S, Franceschetti S, Torricelli A (2015). Hemodynamic and EEG Time-Courses During Unilateral Hand Movement in Patients with Cortical Myoclonus. An EEG-fMRI and EEG-TD-fNIRS Study. Brain Topogr. 28(6):915-25. doi: 10.1007/s10548-014-0402-6. 

• Chiandetti C, Pecchia T, Patt F, Vallortigara G (2014). Visual hierarchical processing and lateralization of cognitive functions through domestic chicks' eyes. PLoS One.  9(1):e84435. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084435.

2014

• Dupierrix E, de Boisferon AH, Méary D, Lee K, Quinn PC, Di Giorgio E, Simion F, Tomonaga M, Pascalis O (2014). Preference for human eyes in human infants. J Exp Child Psychol. 123:138-46. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2013.12.010.

• Fontanari L, Gonzalez M, Vallortigara G, Girotto V (2014). Probabilistic cognition in two indigenous Mayan groups. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA.  111(48):17075-80. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1410583111.

• Fontanari L, Rugani R, Regolin L, Vallortigara G (2014). Use of kind information for object individuation in young domestic chicks. Anim Cogn. 17(4):925-35. doi: 10.1007/s10071-013-0725-9.

• Frasnelli E, Haase A, Rigosi E, Anfora G, Rogers LJ, Vallortigara G (2014). The Bee as a Model to Investigate Brain and Behavioural Asymmetries. Insects.  5(1):120-38. doi: 10.3390/insects5010120. Review.

• Quaresmini C, Forrester GS, Spiezio C, Vallortigara G (2014). Social environment elicits lateralized behaviors in gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). J Comp Psychol.  128(3):276-84. doi:10.1037/a0036355.

• Rosa Salva O, Normando S, Mollo A, Regolin L (2014). Novelty preference in face perception by week-old lambs (Ovis aries). Interaction Studies. 15:113-128. doi: 10.1075/is.15.1.05.ros. 

• Rosa Salva O, Sovrano VA, Vallortigara G (2014). What can fish brains tell us about visual perception? Front Neural Circuits. 8:119. doi: 10.3389/fncir.2014.00119.

• Rugani R, Rosa Salva O, Regolin L (2014). Lateralized mechanisms for encoding of object. Behavioral evidence from an animal model: the domestic chick (Gallus gallus). Front Psychol.  5:150. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00150.

• Rugani R, Vallortigara G, Regolin L (2014). From small to large: numerical discrimination by young domestic chicks (Gallus gallus). J Comp Psychol. 128(2):163-71. doi: 10.1037/a0034513.

• Versace E, Nolte V, Pandey RV, Tobler R, Schlötterer C (2014). Experimental evolution reveals habitat-specific fitness dynamics among Wolbachia clades in Drosophila melanogaster. Mol Ecol.  23(4):802-14. doi: 10.1111/mec.12643. 

2013

• Bonati B, Csermely D, Sovrano VA (2013).Advantages in exploring a new environment with the left eye in lizards.Behavioural Processes

• Chiandetti C, Galliussi J, Andrew RJ, Vallortigara G (2013). Early-light embryonic stimulation suggests a second route, via gene activation, to cerebral lateralization in vertebrates. Sci Rep. 3:2701. doi: 10.1038/srep02701.

• Lee SA, Vallortigara G, Flore M, Spelke ES, Sovrano VA (2013). Navigation by environmental geometry: the use of zebrafish as a model. J Exp Biol. 216(Pt 19):3693-9. doi: 10.1242/jeb.088625.

• Mascalzoni E, Regolin L, Vallortigara G, Simion F (2013). The cradle of causal reasoning: newborns' preference for physical causality. Dev Sci. 16(3):327-35. doi: 10.1111/desc.12018.

• Rogers LJ, Rigosi E, Frasnelli E, Vallortigara G (2013). A right antenna for social behaviour in honeybees. Sci Rep. 3:2045. doi: 10.1038/srep02045.

• Rosa Salva O, Rugani R, Cavazzana A, Regolin L, Vallortigara G (2013). Perception of the Ebbinghaus illusion in four-day-old domestic chicks (Gallus gallus). Anim Cogn. 16(6):895-906. doi: 10.1007/s10071-013-0622-2.

• Rugani R, Cavazzana A, Vallortigara G, Regolin L (2013). One, two, three, four, or is there something more? Numerical discrimination in day-old domestic chicks. Anim Cogn. 16(4):557-64. doi: 10.1007/s10071-012-0593-8.

• Rugani R, Vallortigara G, Regolin L (2013). Numerical abstraction in young domestic chicks (Gallus gallus). PLoS One.  8(6):e65262. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065262.

• Siniscalchi M, Lusito R, Vallortigara G, Quaranta A (2013). Seeing left- or right-asymmetric tail wagging produces different emotional responses in dogs. Curr Biol. 23(22):2279-82. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.09.027.

• Sovrano VA, Potrich D, Vallortigara G (2013). Learning of geometry and features in bumblebees (Bombus terrestris). J Comp Psychol. 127(3):312-8. doi: 10.1037/a0032040.

• Stancher G, Sovrano VA, Potrich D, Vallortigara G (2013). Discrimination of small quantities by fish (redtail splitfin, Xenotoca eiseni). Anim Cogn. 16(2):307-12. doi: 10.1007/s10071-012-0590-y.

2012

• Forrester GS, Quaresmini C, Leavens DA, Spiezio C, Vallortigara G (2012). Target animacy influences chimpanzee handedness. Anim Cogn. 15(6):1121-7. doi:  10.1007/s10071-012-0536-4.

• Frasnelli E, Vallortigara G, Rogers LJ (2012). Left-right asymmetries of behavior and nervous system in invertebrates. Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 36(4):1273-91. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2012.02.006.

• Bonati B, Csermely D, Sovrano VA (2013). Looking at a predator with the left or right eye: asymmetry of response in lizards. Laterality 18(3):329-39. doi: 10.1080/1357650X.2012.673623.

• Lee SA, Sovrano VA, Spelke ES (2012). Navigation as a source of geometric knowledge: young children's use of length, angle, distance, and direction in a reorientation task. Cognition. 123(1):144-61. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.12.015.

• Lee SA, Spelke ES, Vallortigara G (2012). Chicks, like children, spontaneously reorient by three-dimensional environmental geometry, not by image matching. Biol Lett. 8(4):492-4. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0067.

• Lee SA, Vallortigara G, Ruga V, Sovrano VA (2012). Independent effects of geometry and landmark in a spontaneous reorientation task: a study of two species of fish. Anim Cogn. 15(5):861-70. doi: 10.1007/s10071-012-0512-z.

• Pecchia T, Vallortigara G (2012). Spatial reorientation by geometry with freestanding objects and extended surfaces: a unifying view. Proc Biol Sci. 279(1736):2228-36. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2011.2522.

• Rosa Salva O, Regolin L, Vallortigara G (2012). Inversion of contrast polarity abolishes spontaneous preferences for face-like stimuli in newborn chicks. Behav Brain Res. 228(1):133-43. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.11.025.

• Sovrano VA, Rigosi E, Vallortigara G (2012). Spatial reorientation by geometry in bumblebees. PLoS One. 7(5):e37449. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037449.

• Tommasi L, Chiandetti C, Pecchia T, Sovrano VA, Vallortigara G (2012). From natural geometry to spatial cognition. Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 36(2):799-824. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2011.12.007.

• Vallortigara G (2012). Core knowledge of object, number, and geometry: a comparative and neural approach. Cogn Neuropsychol. 29(1-2):213-36.