Cross‐species investigations of prenatal experience, hatching behavior, and postnatal behavioral laterality

Casey, Michael B.; Sleigh, Merry J.

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“…The observations made in this study add further support to previous findings (Casey & Sleigh, 2001). The hatching behaviors of domestic chicks and bobwhite quail are similar as evidenced by their shell remains.…”

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Asymmetrical hatching behaviors: The development of postnatal motor laterality in three precocial bird species

Casey

2005

Dev. Psychobiol.

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The effects of asymmetrical hatching behaviors on the development of turning bias and footedness in domestic chicks, bobwhite quail, and Japanese quail chicks were examined. Control tests with incubator reared domestic chicks and bobwhite quail revealed significant individual and population left-side turning bias and right footedness. When late stage hatching behaviors were disrupted, population laterality was not evident and individual laterality was reduced. By contrast, Japanese quail chicks demonstrated no population turning bias or footedness and only weak individual biases. Disruption of hatch behaviors further decreased laterality. Examination of discarded eggshells showed significant differences in the degree of rotation made to cut out of the egg by Japanese quail versus domestic chicks and bobwhite quail. Taken together these findings suggest that the counterclockwise hatching behaviors that are characteristic of many precocial bird species serve to facilitate the development of motor laterality at both the individual and population level.

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“…Domestic chicks rarely make more than one full body rotation to escape the egg (Oppenheim, 1972), while bobwhite quail typically make anywhere from one to three full body rotations and as many as six full body rotations have been reported (Johnson, 1969). By way of contrast, Japanese quail often make less than one full body rotation (Casey & Sleigh, 2001). …”

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Asymmetrical hatching behaviors: The development of postnatal motor laterality in three precocial bird species

Casey

2005

Dev. Psychobiol.

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“…For example, animal research has shown that anticlockwise/leftward turning predominates in swimming dolphins, Tursiops truncatus (Sobel, Supin, & Myslobodsky, 1994), domestic chicks (Casey & Karpinski, 1999; Casey & Sleigh, 2001; Rogers, 1991), bobwhite quail (Casey & Sleigh, 2001), and ants (Hunt et al, 2014). Mohr et al (2004) assessed in 36 healthy human participants long-term spontaneous turning (with a lightweight, rechargeable hip-mounted device consisting of a position sensor and an electronic processing circuit), veering (tendency to deviate from linearity when traveling or walking without any visual cues) and stepping (deviations while stepping blindfolded on a given spot) behavior.…”

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“…For example, the factors of reading or scanning direction and traffic rules do not apply for non-human animals. Researchers hypothesized that lateralization of some forms of visual behavior (leftward or rightward directionality bias) can be generated in avian species, such as pigeons and domestic chickens, by exposing the developing embryos to biased prenatal sensory experiences (unilateral light stimulation to one eye just before hatching; Casey & Sleigh, 2001; Manns & Strökens, 2014; Rogers, 1990; Rogers, 1991). Additionally, chicks hatched from eggs incubated in completely dark conditions do not develop any asymmetry in the visual pathways and visual behavior in categorization of food items and in responding to predators (Rogers, 2012).…”

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Anticlockwise or clockwise? A dynamic Perception-Action-Laterality model for directionality bias in visuospatial functioning

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Likova

2016

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

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Reviewing the relevant literature in visual psychophysics and visual neuroscience we propose a three-stage model of directionality bias in visuospatial functioning. We call this model the ‘Perception-Action-Laterality’ (PAL) hypothesis. We analyzed the research findings for a wide range of visuospatial tasks, showing that there are two major directionality trends: clockwise versus anticlockwise. It appears these preferences are combinatorial, such that a majority of people fall in the first category demonstrating a preference for stimuli/objects arranged from left-to-right rather than from right-to-left, while people in the second category show an opposite trend. These perceptual biases can guide sensorimotor integration and action, creating two corresponding turner groups in the population. In support of PAL, we propose another model explaining the origins of the biases– how the neurogenetic factors and the cultural factors interact in a biased competition framework to determine the direction and extent of biases. This dynamic model can explain not only the two major categories of biases, but also the unbiased, unreliably biased or mildly biased cases in visuosptial functioning.

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“…When hatching behaviors were interrupted or eliminated, population laterality was not evident and individual laterality was reduced in these two species. By contrast, control Japanese quail chicks showed only weak individual laterality for turning bias and footedness and did not demonstrate population level lateralization for either measure (see also Casey & Sleigh, ). Disruption of hatch behaviors further decreased these biases.…”

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Prenatal visual experience induces postnatal motor laterality in Japanese quail chicks (Coturnix coturnix japonica)

Casey

Sleigh

2013

Developmental Psychobiology

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Species-typical prenatal visual stimulation in avian species is a necessary component in the development of population level lateralized behaviors. This relationship suggests that species-typical developmental outcomes result from organismic and environmental constraints and experiences shared by members of a species. We examined the effects of prenatal visual experience on the development of turning bias and footedness in Japanese quail chicks, a species which does not demonstrate a naturally occurring level of population laterality and only weak individual laterality. Chicks (n=167) were exposed to one of four prenatal conditions: both eye systems exposed to enhanced visual experience, right eye system exposed/left eye system occluded, left eye system exposed/right eye system occluded, or no enhanced visual experience. When subjects were exposed to prenatal visual stimulation, individual and population level laterality was induced. These results suggest that unilateral prenatal visual experience to the right eye or left eye system is sufficient to induce and influence the direction of individual and population laterality in a species that does not normal demonstrate such biases. The results also provide further evidence that prenatal sensory experiences can elicit the development of postnatal lateralization.

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Cross‐species investigations of prenatal experience, hatching behavior, and postnatal behavioral laterality

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Asymmetrical hatching behaviors: The development of postnatal motor laterality in three precocial bird species

Asymmetrical hatching behaviors: The development of postnatal motor laterality in three precocial bird species

Anticlockwise or clockwise? A dynamic Perception-Action-Laterality model for directionality bias in visuospatial functioning

Prenatal visual experience induces postnatal motor laterality in Japanese quail chicks (Coturnix coturnix japonica)

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