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| Research interests |
My main field of interest concerns the investigation of animals'
cognitive abilities, in particular the understanding of the
real extent to which cognitive processes so far deemed as "human"
only, are indeed and sometimes surprisingly shared by other
species too. Two things are the common denominator of the work
I have been carrying out in these past years: the animal model
I employed (i.e. the young domestic chick), and the fruitful
collaboration with Prof. Vallortigara, now at the University
of Trieste.
I graduated in 1992 at the University of Padova and got a PhD
in Experimental Psychology, in 1998, under the supervision of
Prof. Zanforlin studying chicks'
spatial orientation in detour tasks, and, since then, I have
been investigating chicks' cognitive abilities (those involved
in the response to novelty and memory in the delayed response
tasks with Dr. Piero Pagni, who now got his PhD in Prof. Vallortigara's
lab., and with our most talented postgraduate students: Dr.
Rosa Rugani, Dr. Cinzia Chiandetti
and Dr. Chiara Boschetto.
I am also investigating some visual perception capabilities
(perception of partly occluded objects, perception of biological
vs non biological motion patterns in chicks, with Fabio Marconato,
3rd year PhD student in our lab) and of the functional lateralisation
as revealed by behavioural tests and through the procedure of
eye-patching with Elena Clara, a post-doc
in our lab. With Elena we are also investigating the perception
of "structure from motion" in chicks. |
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| Recent publications |
Mascalzoni,E., Regolin,L., Vallortigara,G. 2008. Mom's shadow:
structure-from-motion in newly hatched chicks as revealed by
an imprinting procedure. Animal Cognition, online first.
Rugani,R., Regolin,L., Vallortigara,G. 2008. Discrimination
of small numerosities in young chicks. Journal of experimental
psychology. Animal behavior processes, 34(3), 388-399.
Simion,F., Regolin,L., Bulf,H. 2008. A predisposition for biological
motion in the newborn baby. Proceedings of the National Academy
of Sciences of the United States of America, 105(2), 809-813.
Salva,O.R., Regolin,L., Vallortigara,G. 2007. Chicks discriminate
human gaze with their right hemisphere. Behavioural Brain Research,
177, 15-21.
Clara,E., Regolin,L., Vallortigara,G., Rogers, L.J. 2007. Perception
of the stereokinetic illusion by the common marmoset (callithrix
jacchus). Animal Cognition, 10, 135-140.
Clara,E., Regolin,L., Vallortigara,G. 2007. Preference for symmetry
is experience dependent in newborn chicks (gallus gallus). Journal
of experimental psychology: animal behavior processes, 33,12-20.
Rugani,R., Regolin,L., Vallortigara,G. 2007. Rudimental numerical
competence in 5-day-old domestic chicks (gallus gallus): identification
of ordinal position. Journal of experimental psychology-animal
behavior processes, 33, 21-31.
Chiandetti,C., Regolin,L., Sovrano,V.A., Vallortigara,G. 2007.
Spatial reorientation: the effects of space size on the encoding
of landmark and geometry information. Animal Cognition, 10,
159-168.
Stancher,G., Clara,E., Regolin,L., Vallortigara,G. 2006. Lateralized
righting behavior in the tortoise (Testudo hermanni). Behavioural
Brain Research 173, 315-319.
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