Lateralized agonistic responses and hindlimb use in toads

Robins, Andrew; Lippolis, Giuseppe; Bisazza, Angelo; Vallortígara, Giorgio; Rogers, Lesley J.

doi:10.1006/anbe.1998.0877

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“…This view fits well with the monkey data; being raised in the laboratory it is conceivable that they received a large amount of exposure to human faces, which could have determined a LGB for human faces. brain activation (c-fos and zif/268 mRNA expression) during exposure to conspecific faces single-cell recording during exposure to face stimuli Vallortigara and Andrew, 1991;Rogers, 2002b McKenzie et al, 1998;Vallortigara, 1992a;Vallortigara et al, 2001Bisazza et al, 1997a1997b;1998;Brown et al, 2007Bobbo et al, 2006a2006b domestic chick (Gallus gallus) Santi, 2003Deckel, 1995Hews and Worthington, 2001;Hews et al, 2004Robins et al, 1998Vallortigara et al, 1998 Casper andDunbard, 1996;Drews, 1996Rogers et al, 1985Ventolini et An hypothesis about the role of experience in this kind of phenomena is that a form of perceptual tuning in favour of the type of face more often experienced during development could be at the basis of many well known effects that are considered hallmarks of specialized face processing (e.g., the face inversion effect, Diamond and Carey, 1986; the other species effect, Pascalis, de Haan and Nelson, 2002; see also Nelson, 2001). In line with that is the fact that 6-month-old babies displayed a much less selective LGB, which extended to non-face objects (Guo et al, 2009).…”

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Cerebral and Behavioural Asymmetries in Animal Social Recognition

Rosa‐Salva¹,

Regolin²,

Mascalzoni³

et al. 2012

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Evidence is here summarized that animal species belonging to distant taxa show forms of social recognition, a sophisticated cognitive ability adaptive in most social interactions. The paper then proceeds to review evidence of functional lateralization for this cognitive ability. The main focus of this review is evidence obtained in domestic chickens, the animal model employed in the authors' laboratories, but we also discuss comparisons with data from species ranging from fishes, amphibians and reptiles, to other birds and mammals. A consistent pattern emerges, pointing toward a right hemisphere dominance, in particular for discrimination of social companions and individual (or familiarity-based) recognition, whereas the left hemisphere could be specialized for "category-based" distinctions (e.g., conspecifics versus heterospecifics). This pattern of results is discussed in relation to a more general specialization and processing styles of the two sides of the brain, with the right hemisphere predisposed for developing a detailed, global and contextual representation of objects, and the left hemisphere predisposed for rapid assignment of a stimulus to a category, for processing releaser stimuli and for control of responses.

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Section: Face Perceptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cerebral and Behavioural Asymmetries in Animal Social Recognition

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Regolin²,

Mascalzoni³

et al. 2012

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“…These side biases would disadvantage an individual and they would disadvantage a population even more so, because lateralized individuals might gain by grouping provided that they are not lateralized with a population bias. Vallortigara and Rogers (2005) have hypothesized that populational asymmetry might depend on social behavior; that is, social stability may result when individuals are lateralized in the same direction, thereby increasing the predictability of individual lateralized behavior (Rogers, 1990;Robins et al,1998).…”

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Lateralization of the Vertebrate Brain: Taking the Side of Model Systems: Figure 1.

Halpern¹,

Güntürkün²,

Hopkins³

et al. 2005

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Popular culture, from movies, advertising, to self-help books, is captivated by left-brain/right-brain differences and how these might influence our personalities, moods, and capabilities. Considering the interest in understanding the scientific basis for lateralized neural functions, it is surprising that model systems have not played a more dominant role in research on brain asymmetry. The long-held view that laterality is unique to the human cortex has been supplanted by overwhelming evidence of left-right (L-R) differences in neuroanatomy and neural processing across vertebrate and even some invertebrate species. Recent inroads into the genetic, anatomical, and behavioral specializations of the brains of model research animals have refocused attention on the evolution and advantage of brain laterality. Technical advances in arenas as diverse as molecular biology and brain imaging have sparked the identification of localized sites of asymmetry. Developmental studies have probed the influence of experience on the generation of lateralization. The goal of this review is to highlight some of the multipronged approaches and diverse models currently being used to explore how the left brain functions differently from the right.

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“…Right limb preferences in predator avoidance, body righting and nose scraping have been demonstrated behaviorally in anurans (Bisazza et al, 1996(Bisazza et al, , 1997Dill, 1977;Lippolis et al, 2002;Malashichev and Nikitina, 2002;Robins et al, 1998;Rogers, 2002, 2006;Rogers, 2002), while neural networks in the left hemisphere have been shown to play the predominant role in the production and perception of vocal signals (Bauer, 1993;Fang et al, 2012). Furthermore, left hemisphere dominance for vocalization/ auditory perception has been shown to be related to right limb preference in humans (Knecht et al, 2000;Perlaki et al, 2013), nonhuman mammals (Fitch et al, 1993;Güven et al, 2003;Hopkins and Cantero, 2003;Ρençe, 2002) and birds (Cynx et al, 1992;Ducker et al, 1986), especially for species utilizing vocal signals for social communication.…”

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The biological significance of acoustic stimuli determines ear preference in the music frog

Xue

Fang

Zhao

et al. 2015

Journal of Experimental Biology

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Behavioral and neurophysiological studies support the idea that right ear advantage (REA) exists for perception of conspecific vocal signals in birds and mammals. Nevertheless, few studies have focused on anuran species that typically communicate through vocalization. The present study examined the direction and latencies of orientation behaviors in Emei music frogs (Babina daunchina) produced in response to six auditory stimuli emitted by a speaker placed directly behind the subjects. The stimuli included male advertisement calls produced from within burrow nests, which have been shown to be highly sexually attractive (HSA), calls produced from outside burrows, which are of low sexual attractiveness (LSA), screech calls produced when frogs are attacked by snakes, white noise, thunder and silence. For all sound stimuli except the screech, the frogs preferentially turned to the right. Right ear preference was strongest for HSA calls. For the screech and thunder stimuli, there was an increased tendency for subjects to move further from the speaker rather than turning. These results support the idea that in anurans, right ear preference is associated with perception of positive or neutral signals such as the conspecific advertisement call and white noise, while a left ear preference is associated with perception of negative signals such as predatory attack.

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Lateralized agonistic responses and hindlimb use in toads

Cited by 153 publications

References 16 publications

Cerebral and Behavioural Asymmetries in Animal Social Recognition

Cerebral and Behavioural Asymmetries in Animal Social Recognition

Lateralization of the Vertebrate Brain: Taking the Side of Model Systems: Figure 1.

The biological significance of acoustic stimuli determines ear preference in the music frog

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