Number-space associations in the brain

Información del proyecto

SPANUMBRA

Identificador del acuerdo de subvención: 833504

DOI

10.3030/833504

Proyecto cerrado

Fecha de la firma de la CE 20 Junio 2019

Fecha de inicio 1 Noviembre 2019

Fecha de finalización 30 Abril 2025

Financiado con arreglo a

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Coste total

€ 2 628 333,00

Aportación de la UE

€ 2 628 333,00

Coordinado por

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TRENTO
Italy

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Publicaciones

Peer reviewed articles (48)

Young domestic chicks spontaneously represent the absence of objects

Autores: Eszter Szabó, Cinzia Chiandetti, Ernő Téglás, Elisabetta Versace, Gergely Csibra, Ágnes Melinda Kovács, Giorgio Vallortigara
Publicado en: eLife, 2022, ISSN 2050-084X
Editor: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.7554/elife.67208.sa0

Evolutionary models of lateralization: Steps towardsstigmergy?

Autores: Lucio Tonello; Giorgio Vallortigara
Publicado en: Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2023, ISSN 1662-5153
Editor: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2023.1121335

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

Autores: Andrea Messina, Davide Potrich, Ilaria Schiona, Valeria Anna Sovrano, Scott E. Fraser, Caroline H. Brennan, Giorgio Vallortigara
Publicado en: Scientific Reports, Edición 10/1, 2020, ISSN 2045-2322
Editor: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-62608-5

Swimming through asymmetry: zebrafish as a model for brain and behavior lateralization

Autores: Alessandra Gobbo, Andrea Messina, Giorgio Vallortigara
Publicado en: Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, Edición 19, 2025, ISSN 1662-5153
Editor: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2025.1527572

Brain and Behavioral Asymmetry: A Lesson From Fish

Autores: Maria Elena Miletto Petrazzini, Valeria Anna Sovrano, Giorgio Vallortigara, Andrea Messina
Publicado en: Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, Edición 14, 2020, ISSN 1662-5129
Editor: 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

Autores: Bastien S. Lemaire, Rosa Rugani, Lucia Regolin, Giorgio Vallortigara
Publicado en: Learning & Behavior, Edición 49/1, 2021, Página(s) 54-66, ISSN 1543-4494
Editor: Psychonomic Society Inc.
DOI: 10.3758/s13420-020-00446-1

baz1b loss-of-function in zebrafish produces phenotypic alterations consistent with the domestication syndrome

Autores: Jose V. Torres-Pérez, Sofia Anagianni, Aleksandra M. Mech, William Havelange, Judit García-González, Scott E. Fraser, Giorgio Vallortigara, Caroline H. Brennan
Publicado en: iScience, Edición 26, 2024, Página(s) 105704, ISSN 2589-0042
Editor: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.105704

Neural coding of numerousness

Autores: Kobylkov, Dmitry; Zanon, Mirko; Perrino, Matilde; Vallortigara, Giorgio
Publicado en: Crossref, Edición 1, 2023, ISSN 1872-8324
Editor: Elsevier B.V. All
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2023.104999

Numerosities and Other Magnitudes in the Brains: A Comparative View

Autores: Elena Lorenzi, Matilde Perrino, Giorgio Vallortigara
Publicado en: Frontiers in Psychology, Edición 12, 2021, ISSN 1664-1078
Editor: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.641994

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

Autores: Maria Bortot, Gionata Stancher, Giorgio Vallortigara
Publicado en: iScience, Edición 23/5, 2020, Página(s) 101122, ISSN 2589-0042
Editor: Elservier
DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2020.101122

Innate face-selectivity in the brain of young domestic chicks

Autores: Dmitry Kobylkov, Orsola Rosa-Salva, Mirko Zanon, Giorgio Vallortigara
Publicado en: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Edición 121, 2024, ISSN 0027-8424
Editor: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2410404121

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

Autores: Mathilde Josserand, Orsola Rosa-Salva, Elisabetta Versace, Bastien S. Lemaire
Publicado en: Behavior Research Methods, 2021, ISSN 1554-3528
Editor: Springer
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-021-01702-6

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

Autores: Giacomo Costalunga, Dmitry Kobylkov, Orsola Rosa-Salva, Giorgio Vallortigara, Uwe Mayer
Publicado en: Brain Structure and Function, 2021, ISSN 1863-2653
Editor: 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

Autores: Elisabetta Versace, Paola Sgadò, Julia George, Jasmine L. Loveland, Joseph Ward, Peter Thorpe, Lars Juhl Jensen, Karen A. Spencer, Silvia Paracchini, Giorgio Vallortigara
Publicado en: Scientific Reports, Edición vol 12, n1, 2022, ISSN 2045-2322
Editor: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-14963-8

Face detection mechanisms: Nature vs. nurture

Autores: Dmitry Kobylkov; Giorgio Vallortigara
Publicado en: Frontiers Neuroscience, 2024, ISSN 1662-453X
Editor: Frontiers Media S.A
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2024.1404174

Characterizing ontogeny of quantity discrimination in zebrafish

Autores: Eva Sheardown, Jose Vicente Torres-Perez, Sofia Anagianni, Scott E Fraser, Giorgio Vallortigara, Brian Butterworth, Maria Elena Miletto-Petrazzini, Caroline H Brennan
Publicado en: Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Edición Volume 289. Edición 1968, 2022, ISSN 0962-8452
Editor: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2021.2544

In vivo assessment of the influence of general anesthetics on transmembrane water cycling in the brain

Autores: Eleonora Cavallari, Elena Lorenzi, Enza Di Gregorio, Giuseppe Ferrauto, Silvio Aime, Giorgio Vallortigara, Angelo Bifone
Publicado en: Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism, Edición 45, 2025, Página(s) 977-988, ISSN 0271-678X
Editor: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Ltd.
DOI: 10.1177/0271678x241309783

Magnitudes for Nervous Systems: Theoretical Issues and Experimental Evidence

Autores: Giorgio Vallortigara, Elena Lorenzi, Andrea Messina, Matilde Perrino
Publicado en: Current Directions in Psychological Sciences, 2022, ISSN 2158-2440
Editor: SAGE Publications Inc.
DOI: 10.1177/09637214221102146

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

Autores: Andrea Messina, Davide Potrich, Ilaria Schiona, Valeria Anna Sovrano, Giorgio Vallortigara
Publicado en: Animals : an Open Access Journal from MDPI, 2021, ISSN 2076-2615
Editor: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/ani11113072

Hierarchical processing of feature, egocentric and relational information for spatial orientation in domestic chicks

Autores: Morandi-Raikova A.; Rosa-Salva O.; Simdianova A.; Vallortigara G.; Mayer U.
Publicado en: Journal of Experimental Biology, 2024, ISSN 1477-9145
Editor: The Company of Biologists.
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.246447

When sounds come alive: animacy in the auditory sense

Autores: Stefano Gonan, Giorgio Vallortigara, Cinzia Chiandetti
Publicado en: Frontiers in Psychology, Edición 15, 2024, ISSN 1664-1078
Editor: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1498702

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

Autores: Andrea Messina, Alessandra Boiti, Giorgio Vallortigara
Publicado en: European Journal of Neuroscience, Edición 53/2, 2021, Página(s) 362-375, ISSN 0953-816X
Editor: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.14914

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

Autores: Mirko Zanon, Bastien S. Lemaire, Giorgio Vallortigara
Publicado en: Biological Cybernetics, Edición 115, 2021, Página(s) 575-584, ISSN 0340-1200
Editor: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00422-021-00886-6

Innate responses to numerousness reveal neural activation in different brain regions in newly-hatched visually naïve chicks

Autores: Elena Lorenzi, Matilde Perrino, Andrea Messina, Mirko Zanon, Giorgio Vallortigara
Publicado en: Heliyon, Edición 10, 2025, Página(s) e34162, ISSN 2405-8440
Editor: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e34162

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

Autores: Rosa Rugani, Giorgio Vallortigara, Konstantinos Priftis, Lucia Regolin
Publicado en: eLife, Edición 9, 2020, ISSN 2050-084X
Editor: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.7554/elife.54662

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

Autores: Andrea Messina, Davide Potrich, Ilaria Schiona, Valeria Anna Sovrano, Scott E. Fraser, Caroline H. Brennan, Giorgio Vallortigara
Publicado en: Cerebral Cortex, 2021, ISSN 1047-3211
Editor: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhab218

Responses in the left and right entopallium are differently affected by light stimulation in embryo

Autores: Costalunga, Giacomo; Kobylkov, Dmitry; Rosa-Salva, Orsola; Morandi-Raikova, Anastasia; Vallortigara, Giorgio; Mayer, Uwe
Publicado en: iScience, Vol 27, Iss 3, Pp 109268- (2024), Edición 3, 2024, ISSN 2589-0042
Editor: Elsevier B.V.
DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.109268

Is there an innate sense of number in the brain?

Autores: Elena Lorenzi, Dmitry Kobylkov, Giorgio Vallortigara
Publicado en: Cerebral Cortex, Edición 35, 2025, ISSN 1047-3211
Editor: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhaf004

Proto-arithmetic abilities in zebrafish (Danio rerio)

Autores: Davide Potrich, Lorenza Montel, Gionata Stancher, Greta Baratti, Giorgio Vallortigara, Valeria Anna Sovrano
Publicado en: Heliyon, Edición 10, 2025, Página(s) e40585, ISSN 2405-8440
Editor: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e40585

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

Autores: Andrea Messina, Alessandra Boiti, Valeria Anna Sovrano, Paola Sgadò
Publicado en: Biomolecules, Edición 10/10, 2020, Página(s) 1364, ISSN 2218-273X
Editor: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/biom10101364

Statistical learning in domestic chicks is modulated by strain and sex

Autores: Chiara Santolin, Orsola Rosa-Salva, Bastien S. Lemaire, Lucia Regolin, Giorgio Vallortigara
Publicado en: Scientific Reports, Edición 10/1, 2020, ISSN 2045-2322
Editor: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-72090-8

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

Autores: Maria Loconsole , Elena Mascalzoni, Jonathan Niall Daisley, Massimo De Agrò ,Giorgio Vallortigara and Lucia Regolin
Publicado en: symmetry, Edición volume 13, Edición 5, 2021, ISSN 2073-8994
Editor: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/sym13050906

Looks like home: numerosity, but not spatial frequency guides preference in zebrafish larvae (Danio rerio)

Autores: Elisabeth Adam, Mirko Zanon, Andrea Messina, Giorgio Vallortigara
Publicado en: Animal Cognition, Edición 27, 2025, ISSN 1435-9456
Editor: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-024-01888-0

Core knowledge as a neuro-ethologist views it

Autores: Giorgio Vallortigara
Publicado en: Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Edición 47, 2024, ISSN 0140-525X
Editor: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x23003035

Quantity as a Fish Views It: Behavior and Neurobiology

Autores: 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
Publicado en: FRONTIERS IN NEUROANATOMY, Edición 1, 2022, ISSN 1662-5129
Editor: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2022.943504

Manganese Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging reveals light-induced brain asymmetry in embryo

Autores: Lorenzi, Elena; Tambalo, Stefano; Vallortigara, Giorgio; Bifone, Angelo
Publicado en: eLife, Vol 12 (2023), Edición 1, 2023, ISSN 2050-084X
Editor: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.7554/elife.86116

Valproic acid exposure affects social visual lateralization and asymmetric gene expression in zebrafish larvae

Autores: Messina, Andrea; Sovrano, Valeria Anna; Baratti, Greta; Musa, Alessia; Gobbo, Alessandra; Adiletta, Alice; Sgadò, Paola
Publicado en: Scientific Reports, Vol 14, Iss 1, Pp 1-15 (2024), Edición 3, 2024, ISSN 2045-2322
Editor: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-54356-7

Number neurons in the nidopallium of young domestic chicks

Autores: Dmitry Kobylkov, Uwe Mayer, Mirko Zanon, Giorgio Vallortigara
Publicado en: PNAS, Edición 119 (32), 2022, ISSN 0027-8424
Editor: 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

Autores: Mirko Zanon, Davide Potrich, Maria Bortot, Giorgio Vallortigara
Publicado en: Behavior Research Methods, Edición 54, 2022, Página(s) 146-157, ISSN 1554-3528
Editor: Springer
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-021-01580-y

Archerfish number discrimination

Autores: Davide Potrich, Mirko Zanon, Giorgio Vallortigara
Publicado en: eLife, Vol 11 (2022), 2022, ISSN 2050-084X
Editor: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.7554/elife.74057.sa0

A sense of number in invertebrates

Autores: Maria Bortot, Lucia Regolin, Giorgio Vallortigara
Publicado en: Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 2020, ISSN 0006-291X
Editor: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2020.11.039

Visual discrimination and amodal completion in zebrafish

Autores: Valeria Anna Sovrano; Sofia Vicidomini; Davide Potrich; Maria Elena Miletto Petrazzini; Greta Baratti; Orsola Rosa-Salva
Publicado en: PLOS ONE, Edición 2, 2022, ISSN 1932-6203
Editor: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0264127

Behavioural analysis of loss of function zebrafish supports baz1b as master regulator of domestication

Autores: Jose Vicente Torres-Perez; Sofia Anagianni; Aleksandra Maria Mech; William Havelange; Judit Garcia-Gonzalez; Scott E Fraser; Giorgio Vallortigara; Caroline Helen Brennan
Publicado en: Crossref, Edición 1, 2022, ISSN 2589-0042
Editor: Cell press Elsevier
DOI: 10.1101/2022.02.02.478842

Use of numerical and spatial information in ordinal counting by zebrafish

Autores: Davide Potrich, Rosa Rugani, Valeria Anna Sovrano, Lucia Regolin, Giorgio Vallortigara
Publicado en: Scientific Reports, Edición 9/1, 2019, ISSN 2045-2322
Editor: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-54740-8

Transfer from continuous to discrete quantities in honeybees

Autores: Maria Bortot; Giorgio Vallortigara
Publicado en: iScience, Vol 26, Iss 10, Pp 108035- (2023), Edición 1, 2023, ISSN 2589-0042
Editor: iScience
DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.108035

Flickering stimuli presentation in imprinting

Autores: Lemaire B.S.; Zanon, M.; Placì S.; Werk, B.; Vallortigara G.
Publicado en: Journal of Ornitology, 2023, ISSN 2193-7206
Editor: Springer Link
DOI: 10.1007/s10336-023-02110-7

A left-to-right bias in number-space mapping across ages and cultures

Autores: Elena Eccher, Mathilde Josserand, Serge Caparos, Esther Boissin, Marco Buiatti, Manuela Piazza, Giorgio Vallortigara
Publicado en: Nature Communications, Edición 16, 2025, ISSN 2041-1723
Editor: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-55685-x

Brain asymmetry as minimization of free energy: a theoretical model

Autores: Giorgio Vallortigara, Giuseppe Vitiello
Publicado en: Royal Society Open Science, Edición 11, 2024, ISSN 2054-5703
Editor: The Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.240465

Other (1)

Neural Basis of Number Sense in Larval Zebrafish

Autores: Peter Luu, Anna Nadtochiy, Mirko Zanon, Noah Moreno, Andrea Messina, Maria Elena Miletto Petrazzini, Jose Vicente Torres Perez, Kevin Keomanee-Dizon, Matthew Jones, Caroline H. Brennan, Giorgio Vallortigara, Scott E. Fraser, Thai V. Truong
Publicado en: 2024
Editor: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2024.08.30.610552