My research interest focuses on evolution and function of animal behaviour. I have ongoing projects in three different areas:

• Sexual selection and sexual conflicts in poeciliids fish
  In many species the two sexes have divergent interests in reproduction. Conflict over mating frequency is prominent in poeciliids as females store sperm and need a few copulation while males are very ardent and attempt to mate with all females they encounter. We study the consequences of male sexual harassment and the strategies used by females to minimize the costs of sexual conflict
  
  
• The evolution of cerebral lateralisation in vertebrates
  The presence of cerebral lateralization is now firmly established in almost all vertebrate classes. We are presently investigating the selective advantages of functional brain asymmetries and the mechanisms explaining the maintenance of individual variation in these traits
  
  
• Cognitive mechanisms in fish
  We study visual perception, spatial orientation and numerical abilities in teleost fish. We are especially interested in understanding how ecology and phylogeny interact to produce similarity and variation in cognitive mechanisms across vertebrates

Dadda, M., Nepomnyashchikh, V.A., Izvekov, E.I., Bisazza, A. (2012). Individual-level consistency of different laterality measures in the goldbelly topminnow. Behavioral Neuroscience, 126(6), 845-849.

Dadda,M., & Bisazza,A. (2012). Prenatal light exposure affects development of behavioural lateralization in a livebearing fish. Behavioural Processes, 91(1), 115-118.

Agrillo,C., Miletto Petrazzini,M.E., Tagliapietra,C., & Bisazza,A. (2012). Inter-specific differences in numerical abilities among teleost fish. Frontiers in Psychology, 3:483. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00483.

Agrillo,C., Miletto Petrazzini,M.E., Piffer,L., Dadda,M., & Bisazza,A. (2012). A new training procedure for studying discrimination learning in fishes. Behavioural Brain Research, 230, 343-348.

Miletto Petrazzini,M.E., Agrillo,C., PifferL., Dadda,M., & Bisazza, A. (2012). Development and application of a new method to investigate cognition in newborn guppies. Behavioural Brain Research, 233, 443-449.

Parma,V., Tirindelli,R., Bisazza,A., Massaccesi,S., & Castiello,U. (2012). Subliminally perceived odours modulate female intrasexual competition: an eye movement study. PLoS ONE 7(2): e30645.

Agrillo,C., Piffer,L., Bisazza,A., & Butterworth,B. (2012). Evidence for two numerical systems that are similar in humans and guppies. PLoS ONE, 7(2): e31923

Domenichini,A., Dadda,M., Facchin,L., Bisazza,A., & Argenton,F. (2011). Isolation and genetic characterization of mother-of-snow-white, a maternal effect allele affecting laterality and lateralized behaviors in zebrafish. PLoS ONE 6(10): e25972.

Agrillo,C., Piffer,L., & Bisazza,A. (2011). Number versus continuous quantity in numerosity judgments by fish. Cognition, 119: 281-287.

Agrillo,C., Piffer,L., & Bisazza,A. (2010). Large number discrimination by fish. PLoS ONE, 5(12): e15232. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0015232.

Bisazza,A., Serena,G., Piffer,L., & Agrillo,C. (2010). Ontogeny of numerical abilities in guppies. PLoS ONE, 5(11): e15516. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0015516.
Truppa, V., Sovrano, V. A., Spinozzi, G., & Bisazza, A. (2010). Processing of visual hierarchical stimuli by fish (Xenotoca eiseni). Behavioural Brain Research, 207(1), 51–60.

Dadda,M., Domenichini,A., Piffer,L., Argenton,F., Bisazza,A. (2010). Early differences in epithalamic left-right asymmetry influence lateralization and personality of adult zebrafish. Behavioural Brain Research, 206 (2), 208-215.

Dadda,M., Piffer,L., Agrillo,C., & Bisazza,A. (2009). Spontaneous number representation in mosquitofish. Cognition, 112, 343-348.

Dadda,M., Zandonà,E., Agrillo,C., & Bisazza,A. (2009). The costs of hemispheric specialization in a fish. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 276, 4399-4407.

Sovrano,V.A. & Bisazza,A. (2009). Perception of subjective contours in fish. Perception 38, 579–590.

Facchin,L., Argenton,F., Bisazza, A. 2009. Lines of Danio rerio selected for opposite behavioural lateralization show differences in anatomical left-right asymmetries. Behavioural Brain Research, 197 (1), 157-165.

Agrillo,C., Dadda,M., Serena,G., Bisazza, A. 2009. Use of number by fish. PloS ONE, 4(3), e4786, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0004786.

Agrillo,C., Dadda,M., Bisazza,A. 2009. Escape behaviour elicited by a visual stimulus. A comparison between lateralised and non-lateralised female topminnows. Laterality, on-line first, DOI: 10.1080/13576500802396693.

Dadda,M., Pilastro,A., Bisazza,A 2008. Innate responses to male sexual harassment in female mosquitofish. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 63(1), 53-62.

Alcaraz,C., Bisazza,A., Garcia-Berthou, E. 2008. Salinity mediates the competitive interactions between invasive mosquitofish and an endangered fish. Oecologia 1, 205-213 PDF

Sovrano,V.A., Bisazza,A. 2008. Recognition of partly occluded objects by fish. Animal Cognition 11, 161-166 PDF

Agrillo,C., Dadda,M., Serena,G. Bisazza,A. 2008. Do fish count? Spontaneous discrimination of quantity in female mosquitofish. Animal Cognition, on line first, DOI: 10.1007/s10071-008-0140-9 PDF

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