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| Rosa RuganiSummaryAffiliation: University of Padova Country: Italy Publications
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Discrimination of small numerosities in young chicksRosa Rugani
Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process 34:388-99. 2008..This adds to increasing evidence for discrimination of small numerosities of up to three elements in human infants and nonhuman animals...
Arithmetic in newborn chicksRosa Rugani
Center for Mind Brain Sciences, University of Trento, Corso Bettini 31, 38068 Rovereto, Italy
Proc Biol Sci 276:2451-60. 2009..Results suggest impressive proto-arithmetic capacities in the young and relatively inexperienced chicks of this precocial species...
Asymmetrical number-space mapping in the avian brainRosa Rugani
Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
Neurobiol Learn Mem 95:231-8. 2011....
Is it only humans that count from left to right?Rosa Rugani
Centre for Mind Brain Sciences, University of Trento, Corso Bettini 31, 38068 Rovereto, Italy
Biol Lett 6:290-2. 2010..The similarity with the well-known phenomenon of the left-to-right spatially oriented number line in humans is considered...
Rudimental numerical competence in 5-day-old domestic chicks (Gallus gallus): identification of ordinal positionRosa Rugani
Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process 33:21-31. 2007..Overall, young chicks seemed to use ordinality when required to identify a target by its numerical serial position...
Object individuation in 3-day-old chicks: use of property and spatiotemporal informationLaura Fontanari
Center for Mind Brain Sciences, University of Trento, Italy
Dev Sci 14:1235-44. 2011..Chicks instead succeeded if they had been familiarized with objects that were all different from one another (Experiment 5). These young birds thus proved able to use property and spatiotemporal information for object individuation...
Lateralization of social cognition in the domestic chicken (Gallus gallus)Jonathan Niall Daisley
Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Via Venezia 8, Padua, Italy
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 364:965-81. 2009..Some of these effects were sex specific, with male chicks tending to show an increased effect of lateralization on their behaviours. These data are discussed in terms of overall social cognition in group living...
Imprinted numbers: newborn chicks' sensitivity to number vs. continuous extent of objects they have been reared withRosa Rugani
Center for Mind Brain Sciences, University of Trento, Corso Bettini, 31, 38068 Rovereto Trento, Italy
Dev Sci 13:790-7. 2010..Early availability of small numerosity discrimination by chicks strongly suggests that these abilities are in place at birth...
Spontaneous discrimination of possible and impossible objects by newly hatched chicksLucia Regolin
Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
Biol Lett 7:654-7. 2011..These findings suggest that the vertebrate brain can be biologically predisposed towards approaching a two-dimensional image representing a view of a structurally possible three-dimensional object...
Working memory in the chick: parallel and lateralized mechanisms for encoding of object- and position-specific informationLucia Regolin
Department of General Psychology, University of Padua, Via Venezia 8, 35131 Padova, Italy
Behav Brain Res 157:1-9. 2005....
Summation of large numerousness by newborn chicksRosa Rugani
Department of General Psychology, University of Padova Padova, Italy
Front Psychol 2:179. 2011..This study suggests that continuous variables are computed by chicks for sets of objects that are not present at the same time and that are no longer visible at the time of choice...
