Number-space associations in the brain

Project Information

SPANUMBRA

Grant agreement ID: 833504

DOI 10.3030/833504

EC signature date 20 June 2019

Start date 1 November 2019

End date 31 October 2024

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 2 628 333,00

EU contribution € 2 628 333,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TRENTO
Italy

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (28)

Young domestic chicks spontaneously represent the absence of objects

Author(s): Eszter Szabó, Cinzia Chiandetti, Ernő Téglás, Elisabetta Versace, Gergely Csibra, Ágnes Melinda Kovács, Giorgio Vallortigara
Published in: eLife, 2022, ISSN 2050-084X
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.7554/elife.67208.sa0

Response to change in the number of visual stimuli in zebrafish:A behavioural and molecular study

Author(s): Andrea Messina, Davide Potrich, Ilaria Schiona, Valeria Anna Sovrano, Scott E. Fraser, Caroline H. Brennan, Giorgio Vallortigara
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 10/1, 2020, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-62608-5

Brain and Behavioral Asymmetry: A Lesson From Fish

Author(s): Maria Elena Miletto Petrazzini, Valeria Anna Sovrano, Giorgio Vallortigara, Andrea Messina
Published in: Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, Issue 14, 2020, ISSN 1662-5129
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2020.00011

Response of male and female domestic chicks to change in the number (quantity) of imprinting objects

Author(s): Bastien S. Lemaire, Rosa Rugani, Lucia Regolin, Giorgio Vallortigara
Published in: Learning & Behavior, Issue 49/1, 2021, Page(s) 54-66, ISSN 1543-4494
Publisher: Psychonomic Society Inc.
DOI: 10.3758/s13420-020-00446-1

Young domestic chicks spontaneously represent the absence of objects

Author(s): Eszter Szabo; Cinzia Chiandetti; Erno Teglas; Elisabetta Versace; Gergely Csibra; Ágnes Melinda Kovács; Giorgio Vallortigara
Published in: E Life, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 2050-084X
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.7554/elife.67208

Numerosities and Other Magnitudes in the Brains: A Comparative View

Author(s): Elena Lorenzi, Matilde Perrino, Giorgio Vallortigara
Published in: Frontiers in Psychology, Issue 12, 2021, ISSN 1664-1078
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.641994

Transfer from Number to Size Reveals Abstract Coding of Magnitude in Honeybees

Author(s): Maria Bortot, Gionata Stancher, Giorgio Vallortigara
Published in: iScience, Issue 23/5, 2020, Page(s) 101122, ISSN 2589-0042
Publisher: Elservier
DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2020.101122

Visual Field Analysis: A reliable method to score left and right eye use using automated tracking.

Author(s): Mathilde Josserand, Orsola Rosa-Salva, Elisabetta Versace, Bastien S. Lemaire
Published in: Behavior Research Methods, 2021, ISSN 1554-3528
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-021-01702-6

Light-incubation effects on lateralisation of single unit responses in the visual Wulst of domestic chicks

Author(s): Giacomo Costalunga, Dmitry Kobylkov, Orsola Rosa-Salva, Giorgio Vallortigara, Uwe Mayer
Published in: Brain Structure and Function, 2021, ISSN 1863-2653
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-021-02259-y

Light-induced asymmetries in embryonic retinal gene expression are mediated by the vascular system and extracellular matrix

Author(s): Elisabetta Versace, Paola Sgadò, Julia George, Jasmine L. Loveland, Joseph Ward, Peter Thorpe, Lars Juhl Jensen, Karen A. Spencer, Silvia Paracchini, Giorgio Vallortigara
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue vol 12, n1, 2022, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-14963-8

Characterizing ontogeny of quantity discrimination in zebrafish

Author(s): Eva Sheardown, Jose Vicente Torres-Perez, Sofia Anagianni, Scott E Fraser, Giorgio Vallortigara, Brian Butterworth, Maria Elena Miletto-Petrazzini, Caroline H Brennan
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Issue Volume 289. Issue 1968, 2022, ISSN 0962-8452
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2021.2544

Magnitudes for Nervous Systems: Theoretical Issues and Experimental Evidence

Author(s): Giorgio Vallortigara, Elena Lorenzi, Andrea Messina, Matilde Perrino
Published in: Current Directions in Psychological Sciences, 2022, ISSN 2158-2440
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc.
DOI: 10.1177/09637214221102146

The Sense of Number in Fish, with Particular Reference to ItsNeurobiological Bases

Author(s): Andrea Messina, Davide Potrich, Ilaria Schiona, Valeria Anna Sovrano, Giorgio Vallortigara
Published in: Animals : an Open Access Journal from MDPI, 2021, ISSN 2076-2615
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/ani11113072

Asymmetric distribution of pallial‐expressed genes in zebrafish ( Danio rerio )

Author(s): Andrea Messina, Alessandra Boiti, Giorgio Vallortigara
Published in: European Journal of Neuroscience, Issue 53/2, 2021, Page(s) 362-375, ISSN 0953-816X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.14914

Steps towards a computational ethology: an automatized, interactive setup to investigate filial imprinting and biological predispositions

Author(s): Mirko Zanon, Bastien S. Lemaire, Giorgio Vallortigara
Published in: Biological Cybernetics, Issue 115, 2021, Page(s) 575-584, ISSN 0340-1200
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00422-021-00886-6

Numerical magnitude, rather than individual bias, explains spatial numerical association in newborn chicks

Author(s): Rosa Rugani, Giorgio Vallortigara, Konstantinos Priftis, Lucia Regolin
Published in: eLife, Issue 9, 2020, ISSN 2050-084X
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.7554/elife.54662

Neurons in the Dorso-Central Division of Zebrafish Pallium Respond to Change in Visual Numerosity

Author(s): Andrea Messina, Davide Potrich, Ilaria Schiona, Valeria Anna Sovrano, Scott E. Fraser, Caroline H. Brennan, Giorgio Vallortigara
Published in: Cerebral Cortex, 2021, ISSN 1047-3211
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhab218

Micromolar Valproic Acid Doses Preserve Survival and Induce Molecular Alterations in Neurodevelopmental Genes in Two Strains of Zebrafish Larvae

Author(s): Andrea Messina, Alessandra Boiti, Valeria Anna Sovrano, Paola Sgadò
Published in: Biomolecules, Issue 10/10, 2020, Page(s) 1364, ISSN 2218-273X
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/biom10101364

Statistical learning in domestic chicks is modulated by strain and sex

Author(s): Chiara Santolin, Orsola Rosa-Salva, Bastien S. Lemaire, Lucia Regolin, Giorgio Vallortigara
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 10/1, 2020, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-72090-8

Asymmetric distribution of pallial‐expressed genes in zebrafish (Danio rerio)

Author(s): Andrea Messina, Alessandra Boiti, Giorgio Vallortigara
Published in: European Journal of Neuroscience, 2020, ISSN 0953-816X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.14914

Lateralized Declarative-Like Memory for Conditional Spatial Information in Domestic Chicks (Gallus gallus)

Author(s): Maria Loconsole , Elena Mascalzoni, Jonathan Niall Daisley, Massimo De Agrò ,Giorgio Vallortigara and Lucia Regolin
Published in: symmetry, Issue volume 13, Issue 5, 2021, ISSN 2073-8994
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/sym13050906

Quantity as a Fish Views It: Behavior and Neurobiology

Author(s): Messina, Andrea; Potrich, Davide; Perrino, Matilde; Sheardown, Eva; Miletto Petrazzini, Maria Elena; Luu, Peter; Nadtochiy, Anna; Truong, Thai V.; Sovrano, Valeria Anna; Fraser, Scott E.; Brennan, Caroline H.; Vallortigara, Giorgio
Published in: FRONTIERS IN NEUROANATOMY, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 1662-5129
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2022.943504

Number neurons in the nidopallium of young domestic chicks

Author(s): Dmitry Kobylkov, Uwe Mayer, Mirko Zanon, Giorgio Vallortigara
Published in: PNAS, Issue 119 (32), 2022, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2201039119

Towards a standardization of non-symbolic numerical experiments: GeNEsIS, a flexible and user-friendly tool to generate controlled stimuli

Author(s): Mirko Zanon, Davide Potrich, Maria Bortot, Giorgio Vallortigara
Published in: Behavior Research Methods, Issue 54, 2022, Page(s) 146-157, ISSN 1554-3528
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-021-01580-y

Archerfish number discrimination

Author(s): Davide Potrich, Mirko Zanon, Giorgio Vallortigara
Published in: eLife, Vol 11 (2022), 2022, ISSN 2050-084X
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.7554/elife.74057.sa0

A sense of number in invertebrates

Author(s): Maria Bortot, Lucia Regolin, Giorgio Vallortigara
Published in: Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 2020, ISSN 0006-291X
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2020.11.039

Visual discrimination and amodal completion in zebrafish

Author(s): Valeria Anna Sovrano; Sofia Vicidomini; Davide Potrich; Maria Elena Miletto Petrazzini; Greta Baratti; Orsola Rosa-Salva
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 2, 2022, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0264127

Use of numerical and spatial information in ordinal counting by zebrafish

Author(s): Davide Potrich, Rosa Rugani, Valeria Anna Sovrano, Lucia Regolin, Giorgio Vallortigara
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 9/1, 2019, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-54740-8