Objective
One of the most intriguing puzzles in cognitive neuroscience is cerebral lateralization. Lateralization has many crucial facets, including functional hemispheric differences in humans and other species, and implications for neurological and psychiatric disorders among which several involve impairment in social abilities. The aim of the project is to obtain clues to how brain lateralization is expressed in different tasks and social contexts, and to thus try to understand the complex interrelationship between lateralization and social interactions. This will be done by using the domestic chick as a model to experimentally investigate the interplay of neurobiological substrate and behavioural functions, taking into account not only the individual behaviour, but also the group behaviour and the impact that the individual behaviour can have on the group. To date, few studies have looked at lateralized behaviours in social interactions per se.
Our project thus responds to a real need in developing such studies. In accordance with the objectives of the action, this project will enforce both mobility and advanced training. Indeed, after a PhD in France, and a first postdoctoral experience in Japan, it will bring me to an Italian laboratory that is in the forefront of research on brain lateralization. Within this context, I will get trained to new techniques to investigate behavioural, cognitive and neurobiological bases of lateralization, and I will have to work on new paradigms, in a new research environment. Thanks to the high expertise of the host institution, and to my background knowledge in the study of cerebral lateralization, I will thus develop a wider and more thorough knowledge of my field of research. This will be essential for me to become more independent in my work, and to thus improve my prospects of reaching a position of professional maturity.
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- natural sciences biological sciences neurobiology cognitive neuroscience
- medical and health sciences clinical medicine psychiatry
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FP6-2004-MOBILITY-5
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Coordinator
TRIESTE
Italy
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