2024

• Eccher, E., Josserand, M., Caparos, S. et al. A left-to-right bias in number-space mapping across ages and cultures. Nat Commun 16, 495 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-55685-x

• Elena Lorenzi, Giorgio Vallortigara, Lacrime di coccodrillo, in "Psiche, Rivista di cultura psicoanalitica" 2/2024, pp. 465-472, doi: 10.7388/115425

• Kobylkov, D., Rosa-Salva, O., Zanon, M., & Vallortigara, G. (2024). Innate face-selectivity in the brain of young domestic chicks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(40), e2410404121

• Carollo, A., Lim, M., Vallortigara, G. (2024). The Evolution of Developmental Psychology: An Ethologist’s Insight. The Journal of Genetic Psychology, DOI: 10.1080/00221325.2024.2390446 

• Lorenzi, E., Perrino, M. Messina, A., Zanon, M., Vallortigara, G. (2024). Innate responses to numerousness reveal neural activation in different brain regions in newly-hatched visually naïve chicks. Heliyon, Vol. 10, Issue 14, E34162, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e34162

• Adam, E., Zanon, M., Messina, A., Vallortigara, G. (2024). Looks like home: Numerosity, but not spatial frequency guides preference in zebrafish larvae (Danio rerio). Animal Cognition, 27:53 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-024-01888-0

• Lorenzi, E., Nadalin, G., Morandi-Raikova, A., Mayer, U., Vallortigara, G. (2024). Non-cortical coding of biological motion in newborn chicks’ brain. Cerebral Cortex, Volume 34, Issue 6, June 2024, bhae262, https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhae262

• Vallortigara, G., Vitiello, G. (2024). Brain asymmetry as minimization of free energy: A theoretical model. Royal Society Open Science, 11: 240465.https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.240465

• Kobylkov, D., Vallortigara, G. (2024) Face detection mechanisms: Nature vs. nurture. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 18:1404174. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2024.1404174

• Costalunga, G., Kobylkov, D., Rosa-Salva, O., Morandi-Raikova, A., Vallortigara, G., Mayer, U. (2024). Responses of the left and right entopallium are differently affected by light stimulation in embryo. iScience, Volume 27, Issue 3,109268, ISSN 2589-0042, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.109268

• Morandi-Raikova A, Rosa-Salva O, Simdianova A, Vallortigara G, Mayer U. (2024). Hierarchical processing of feature, egocentric and relational information for spatial orientation in domestic chicks. Journal of Experimental Biology, Feb 7: jeb.246447. doi: 10.1242/jeb.246447. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38323420.

• Matsushima, T., Izumi, T., Vallortigara, G. (2024). The domestic chick as an animal model of autism spectrum disorder: Building adaptive social perceptions through prenatally formed predispositions. Frontiers in Neuroscience, in press. 10.3389/fnins.2024.1279947 

• Zanon, M., Lemaire, B.S., Papeo, L., Vallortigara, G. (2024). Innate sensitivity to face-to-face biological motion. iScience, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.108793

• Vallortigara, G. (2024). Core knowledge as a neuro-ethologist views it. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 47: e144. doi:10.1017/s0140525x23003035

2023

• Lemaire B.S, Zanon, M., Placì, S., Werk, B., Vallortigara, G. (2023). Flickering stimuli presentation in imprinting. Journal of Ornithology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-023-02110-7

• Bortot, M., Vallortigara, G. (2023. Transfer from continuous to discrete quantities in honeybees. iScience, 26, 108035, https://doi.org/10.1016/ j.isci.2023.108035

• Lorenzi, E., Tambalo, S., Vallortigara, G., Bifone, A. (2023). Manganese-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging reveals light-induced brain asymmetry in embryo. eLife, 12: e86116, https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.86116

• Kobylkov, D., Zanon, M., Perrino, M., Vallortigara, G. (2023). Neural coding of numerousness. BioSystems, 232,104999, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2023.104999.

• Rosa-Salva O., Hernik, M., Fabbroni, M., Lorenzi, E., Vallortigara, G. (2023). Naïve chicks do not prefer objects with stable body orientation, though they may prefer behavioural variability. Animal Cognition, 26: 1177–1189 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-023-01764-3 

• Tonello L and Vallortigara G (2023) Evolutionary models of lateralization: Steps toward stigmergy? Front. Behav. Neurosci. 17:1121335. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2023.1121335

• Torres-Pérez, J.V., Anagianni, S., Mech, A.M., Havelange, W., García-González, J., Fraser, S.E., Vallortigara, G., Brennan, C.H. (2023). baz1b loss of function produces phenotypic alterations in zebrafish consistent with the domestication syndrome. iScience, Volume 26, Issue 1,105704, ISSN 2589-0042, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.105704.

• Lemaire, B., Vallortigara, G. (2023). Life is in motion (through a chick's eye). Animal Cognition, 26: 129-140. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-022-01703-8

• Kartsch, V.J.; Kumaravel, V.P.; Benatti, S.; Vallortigara, G.; Benini, L.; Farella, E.; Buiatti, M. Efficient Low-Frequency SSVEP Detection with Wearable EEG Using Normalized Canonical Correlation Analysis. Sensors 2022, 22, 9803. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22249803

2022

• Torres-Pérez, J.V., Anagianni, S., Mech, A.M., Havelange, W., García-González, J., Fraser, S.E., Vallortigara, G., Brennan, C.H. (2022). baz1b loss of function produces phenotypic alterations in zebrafish consistent with the domestication syndrome. iScience, in press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.105704

• Lemaire, B., Rosa-Salva, O., Fraja, M., Lorenzi, E., Vallortigara, G. (2022). Spontaneous preference for unpredictability in the temporal contingencies between agents’ motion in naïve domestic chicks. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.1622

• Matsushima, T., Miura, M., Patzke, N., Toji, N., Wada, K.Ogura, Y., Homma, K.J., Sgadò, P., Vallortigara, G. (2022). Fetal blockade of nicotinic acetylcholine transmission causes autism-like impairment of biological motion preference in the neonatal chick. Cerebral Cortex Communications, tgac041, https://doi.org/10.1093/texcom/tgac04z

• Lemaire, B., Vallortigara, G. (2022). Life is in motion (through a chick's eye). Animal Cognition, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-022-01703-8

• Perrino M. (2022). Sotto la soglia delle tenebre, Edith Widder Prometeo nr. 159

• Kobylkov, D., Mayer, U., Zanon, M., Vallortigara, G. (2022). Number neurons in the nidopallium of young domestic chicks. Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 119 (32) e2201039119 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2201039119

• Messina A, Potrich D, Perrino M, Sheardown E, Miletto Petrazzini ME, Luu P, Nadtochiy A, Truong TV, Sovrano VA, Fraser SE, Brennan CH and Vallortigara G (2022) Quantity as a Fish Views It: Behavior and Neurobiology. Front. Neuroanat. 16:943504. doi: 10.3389/fnana.2022.943504

• Vallortigara, G., Lorenzi, E., Messina, A., & Perrino, M. (2022). Magnitudes for nervous systems: Theoretical issues and experimental evidence. Current Directions in Psychological Sciences, , 31(5), 405-410. https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214221102146

• Versace, E., Sgadò, P., George, G., Loveland, J.L., Ward, J., Thorpe, P., Jensen, L.J., Spencer, K.A., Paracchini, S., Vallortigara, G. (2022). Light-induced asymmetries in embryonic retinal gene expression are mediated by the vascular system and extracellular matrix. Scientific Reports, 12, 12086 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-14963-8

• Szabó, E., Chiandetti, C., Téglás, E., Versace, E., Csibra, G., Kovács, A.M., Vallortigara, G. (2022). Young domestic chicks spontaneously represent the absence of objects. eLife 11:e67208. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.67208

• Potrich, D., Zanon, M., Vallortigara, G. (2022). Archerfish number discrimination. eLife 11:e74057. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.74057

• Sheardown, E, Torres-Perez, J. V., Anagianni, S., Fraser, S.E., Vallortigara, G., Butterworth, B., Miletto-Petrazzini, M.E., Brennan, C.H. (2022) Characterising ontogeny of quantity discrimination in zebrafish. Proceedings of Royal Society of London, B. 289: 2021254420212544 http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.2544

• Zanon, M., Potrich D., Bortot, M., Vallortigara, G. (2022). Towards a standardization of non-symbolic numerical experiments: GeNEsIS, a flexible and user-friendly tool to generate controlled stimuli. Behavior Research Methods, 54: 146–157. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-021-01580-y

2021

• Prabhakar Kumaravel, V.P., Kartsch, V., Benatti, S., Vallortigara, G., Farella, E., Buiatti, M. (2021). Efficient Artifact Removal from Low-Density Wearable EEG using Artifacts Subspace Reconstruction. Proceedings of 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), pp. 333-336. doi: 10.1109/EMBC46164.2021.9629771.

• Vallortigara, G. (2021). The efference copy signal as a key mechanism for consciousness. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 145 https://doi.org/10.3389/fnsys.2021.765646

• Daisley, J., Vallortigara, G., Regolin, L. (2021). Low-rank chicks are better at transitive inference reasoning. Communications Biology, 4:1344https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02855-y

• Lorenzi, E., Vallortigara, G. (2021). Evolutionary and Neural Bases of the Sense of Animacy. In: The Cambridge Handbook of Animal Cognition (Eds. Allison Kaufman, Josep Call, James Kaufman), pp. 295-321, Cambridge University Press, New York.

• Messina, A., Potrich, D., Schiona, I., Sovrano, V.A., Vallortigara, G. (2021). The Sense of Number in Fish, with Particular Reference to Its Neurobiological Bases. Animals. 11(11):3072. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11113072

• Lorenzi E. (2021). Cervello di gallina Animal studies nr.33/2021

• Perrino M. (2021). In principio erano i metazoi Prometeo nr.155

• Di Giorgio, E., Rosa-Salva, O., Frasnelli, E., Calcagni, A., Lunghi, M., Scattoni, M.L., Simion, F., Vallortigara, G. (2021). Abnormal visual attention to simple social stimuli in 4-month-old infants at high risk for Autism. Scientific Reports, 11: 15785 (2021).

• Di Giorgio, E., Rosa-Salva, O., Frasnelli, E., Calcagni, A., Lunghi, M., Scattoni, M.L., Simion, F., Vallortigara, G. (2021). Abnormal visual attention to simple social stimuli in 4-month-old infants at high risk for Autism. Scientific Reports, 11: 15785 (2021).

• Zanon, M., Lemaire, B.S., Vallortigara, G. (2021). Steps towards a computational ethology: An automatized, interactive setup to investigate filial imprinting and biological predispositions. Biological Cybernetics

• Messina, A., Potrich, D., Schiona, I., Sovrano, V.A., Fraser, S.E., Brennan, C.H., Vallortigara, G. (2021). Neurons in the dorso-central division of zebrafish pallium respond to change in visual numerosity. Cerebral Cortex, bhab218

• Vallortigara G. (2021). La coscienza dei vermi Prometeo nr.154

• Lemaire, B.S., Rucco, D., Josserand, M., Vallortigara, G., Versace, E. (2021). Stability and individual variability of social attachment in imprinting. Scientific Reports 11: 7914

• Vallortigara, G. (2021). The rose and the fly. A conjecture on the origin of consciousness. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 564: 170-174.

• Loconsole, M., Mascalzoni, E., Daisley, J.N., De Agrò, M., Vallortigara, G., Regolin, L. (2021). Lateralized declarative-like memory for conditional spatial information in domestic chicks (Gallus gallus). Symmetry, 13, 906

• Lorenzi, E., Lemaire, B. S., Versace, E., Matsushima, T., & Vallortigara, G. (2021). Resurgence of an inborn attraction for animate objects via thyroid hormone T3. Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 15, 72

• Regaiolli, B., Bolcato, S., Ottolini, G., Vallortigara, G., Pievani, D., & Spiezio, C. (2021). Preliminary investigation of foot preference for a string-pulling task in zoo macaws. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 238, 105307.

• Lorenzi, E., Perrino, M., Vallortigara, G. (2021). Numerosities and other magnitudes in the brains: A comparative view. Frontiers in Psychology - Cognition, 12:641994.

• Zanon, M., Potrich, D., Bortot, M., & Vallortigara, G. (2021). Towards a standardization of non-symbolic numerical experiments: GeNEsIS, a flexible and user-friendly tool to generate controlled stimuli. Behavior Research Methods, 1-12.

• Montalbán-Loro, R., Lassi, G., Lozano-Ureña, A., Perez-Villalba, A., Jiménez-Villalba, E., Charalambous, M., Vallortigara, G., Horner, A., Saksida, L., Bussey, T., Luis Trejo, J., Tucci, V., Ferguson-Smith, A.C., Ferrón, S.R. (2021). Dlk1 dosage regulates hippocampal neurogenesis and cognition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(11).

• Vallortigara, G. (2021). Laterality for the next decade: Computational ethology and the search for minimal condition for cognitive asymmetry. Laterality, 2021 Jan 7;1-4

• Di Giorgio, E., Lunghi, M., Vallortigara, G., Simion, F. (2021). Newborns’ sensitivity to speed changes as a building block for animacy perception. Scientific Reports, 11, 542 (2021)

• Rosa-Salva, O., Mayer, U., Versace, E., Hebert, M., Lemaire, B.S., Vallortigara, G. (2021). Sensitive periods for social development: Interactions between predisposed and learned mechanisms. Cognition

• Costalunga G, Kobylkov D, Rosa-Salva O, Vallortigara G, Mayer U. (2021). Light-incubation effects on lateralisation of single unit responses in the visual Wulst of domestic chicks. Brain Structure and Function

• Regolin, L., Vallortigara, G. (2021). Rethinking cognition: From animal to minimal. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 564: 1-3.

• Vallortigara, G. (2021). Animacy detection and its role on our attitudes towards other species. In "Human/Animal Relationships in Transformation. Scientific, Moral and Legal Perspectives" (S. Pollo, A. Vitale, eds.), Palgrave.

• Bortot, M., Regolin, L., Vallortigara, G. (2021). A sense of number in invertebrates. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 2020 564: 37-42

2020

• Regaiolli, B., Mancini, L., Vallortigara, G., Spiezio, C. (2020). Paw preference in wolves (Canis lupus): A preliminary study using manipulative tasks. Laterality, Dec 3; 1-14

• Lemaire, B.S., Rugani, R., Regolin, L., Vallortigara, G. (2020). Response of male and female domestic chicks to change in the number (quantity) of imprinting objects. Learning & Behavior

• Messina A, Boiti A, Sovrano VA, Sgadò P. Micromolar Valproic Acid Doses Preserve Survival and Induce Molecular Alterations in Neurodevelopmental Genes in Two Strains of Zebrafish Larvae. Biomolecules. 2020 Sep 24;10(10):1364.

• Messina, A., Boiti, A., Vallortigara, G. (2020). Asymmetric distribution of pallial-expressed genes in zebrafish (Danio rerio). European Journal of Neuroscience

• Lee, S.A., Austen, J.M., Sovrano, V.A., Vallortigara, G., McGregor, A., Lever, C. (2020). Distinct and combined responses to environmental geometry and features in a working-memory reorientation task in rats and chicks. Scientific Reports, 10, 7508

• Vallortigara, G. (2020). Lessons from miniature brains: Cognition cheap, memory expensive (sentience linked to active movement?). Animal Sentience, 29 (17).

• Regaiolli, B., Spiezio, C., Ottolini, G., Sandri, C., Vallortigara, G. (2020). Behavioural laterality in two species of flamingos: greater flamingos and chilean flamingos. Laterality

• Rugani, R., Vallortigara, G., Priftis, K., Regolin, L. (2020). Numerical magnitude, rather than individual bias, explains spatial numerical association in newborn chicks. eLife, 9: e54662

• Bortot, M., Stancher, G., Vallortigara, G. (2020). Transfer from number to size reveals abstract coding of magnitude in honeybees. iScience, 23: 101122

• Messina, A., Potrich, D., Schiona, I., Sovrano, V.A., Fraser, S.E., Brennan, C.H., Vallortigara, G. (2020). Response to change in the number of visual stimuli in zebrafish: A behavioural and molecular study. Scientific Reports, 10: 5769

• Miletto Petrazzini, M.E., Sovrano, V.A., Vallortigara, G., Messina, A. (2020). Brain and behavioral asymmetry: A lesson from fish. Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, 14: 11.

• Morandi-Raikova, A., Vallortigara, G., Mayer, U. (2019). The use of spatial and local cues for orientation in domestic chicks (Gallus gallus). Animal Cognition, 3: 367–387

• Vallortigara, G., Rogers, L.J. (2020). A function for the bicameral mind. Cortex, 124: 274-285.

2019

• Versace, E., Ragusa, M., Vallortigara, G. (2019). A transient time window for early predispositions in newborn chicks. Scientific Reports

• Potrich, D., Rugani, R., Sovrano, V.A., Regolin, L., Vallortigara, G. (2019). Use of numerical and spatial information in ordinal counting by zebrafish. Scientific Reports

• Hebert, M., Versace, E., Vallortigara, G. (2019). Inexperienced preys know when to flee or to freeze in front of a threat. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA,116: 22918-22920

• Frasnelli, E., Ponte, G., Vallortigara, G., Fiorito, G. (2019). Visual lateralization in the cephalopod mollusk Octopus vulgaris. Symmetry, 11(9), 1121

• Rosa-Salva, O., Mayer, U., Vallortigara, G. (2019). Unlearned visual preferences for the head region in domestic chicksPLoS One, 14(9): e0222079.

• Chiandetti, C., Vallortigara, G. (2019). Distinct effect of early and late embryonic light-stimulation on chicks' lateralization. Neuroscience, 414

• Vallortigara, G. (2019). Phenotypes in hemispheric functional segregation as by-products of the evolution of lateralization population structure. Comment on «Phenotypes in hemispheric functional segregation? Perspectives and challenges» by Guy Vingerhoets Physics of Life Reviews, Jul 29. pii: S1571-0645(19)30104-6

• Loveland, J. Stewart, M., Vallortigara, G. (2019). Effects of oxytocin-family peptides and substance P on locomotor activity and filial preferences in visually naïve chicksEuropean Journal of Neuroscience, 00:1–14.

• Vallortigara, G. (2019). Q & A Giorgio VallortigaraCurrent Biology, R606-R608, July 8 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.Scientific Reports, 9: 9849.

• Lorenzi, E., Pross, A., Rosa Salva, Versace, E., Sgadò, P., Vallortigara, G. (2019). Embryonic exposure to valproic acid affects social predispositions for dynamic cues of animate motion in newly-hatched chicks.Frontiers in Physiology, 10:501

• Lorenzi, E., Mayer, U., Rosa-Salva, O., Morandi-Raikova, A., Vallortigara, G. (2019). Spontaneous and light-induced lateralization of immediate early genes expression in domestic chicks.Behavioural Brain Research, 13 Apr 2019, 368:111905

• Schnell, A., Vallortigara, G. (2019) ‘Mind’ is an ill-defined concept: Considerations for future cephalopod research.Animal Sentience 26(16).

• Rogers, L.J., Vallortigara, G. (2019). Complementary specialisations of the left and right sides of the honeybee brain.Frontiers in Psychology, 10:280.

• Buiatti, M., Di Giorgio, E., Piazza, M., Polloni, C., Menna, G., Taddei, F., Baldo, E., Vallortigara, G. (2019). A cortical route for face-like pattern processing in human newborns.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 116: 4625-4630.

• Di Giorgio, E., Lunghi, M., Rugani R., Regolin L., Dalla Barba, B., Vallortigara G., Simion., F. (2019). A mental number line in human newborns Developmental Science, First published: 24 January 2019

• Balestrieri, A., Gazzola, A., Pellitteri-Rosa, D., Vallortigara, G. (2019). Discrimination of group numerousness under predation risk in anuran tadpoles Animal Cognition, First Online

 

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.