2024
36. Riyahi S, Liebermann-Lilie ND, Jacobs A, *Korsten P, *Mayer U, *Schmoll T (2024). Transcriptomic changes in the posterior pallium of male zebra finches associated with social niche conformance. BMC Genomics. DOI: 10.1186/s12864-024-10573-y
* These authors share last authorship
35. Corrales-Parada CD, Mayer U, Chagnaud BP (2024). The dorsal part of the anterior tuberal nucleus responds to auditory stimulation in zebrafish (Danio rerio). eNeuro. DOI: 10.1523/ENEURO.0062-24.2024
34. Lorenzi E, Nadalin G, Morandi-Raikova A, Mayer U, Vallortigara G (2024). Noncortical coding of biological motion in newborn chicks’ brain. Cerebral Cortex. DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhae262
33. Costalunga G, Kobylkov D, Rosa-Salva O, Morandi-Raikova A, Vallortigara G, Mayer U (2024). Responses in the left and right entopallium are differently affected by light stimulation in embry. iScience. DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.109268
32. Morandi-Raikova A, Rosa-Salva O, Simdianova A, Vallortigara G, Mayer U (2024). Hierarchical processing of feature, egocentric and relational information for spatial orientation in domestic chicks. Journal of Experimental Biology. DOI:10.1242/jeb.246447
2023
31. Protti-Sanchez F, Mayer U, Rowland HM (2023). In paired preference tests, domestic chicks innately choose the colour green over red, and the shape of a frog over a sphere when both stimuli are green. Animal Cognition. DOI:10.1007/s10071-023-01821-x
2022
30. Morandi-Raikova A, Mayer U (2022). Spatial cognition and the avian hippocampus: Research in domestic chicks. Frontiers in Psychology. 13, 1-13 DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1005726
29. Kobylkov D, Mayer U, Zanon M, Vallortigara G (2022). Number neurons in the nidopallium of young domestic chicks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119 (32) e2201039119. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2201039119
28. Morandi-Raikova A, Mayer U (2022). Active exploration of an environment drives the activation of the anterior hippocampus of domestic chicks. Journal of Experimental Biology. jeb.244190. DOI: 10.1242/jeb.244190
27. Protti-Sanchez F, Corrales-Parada CD, *Mayer U, *Rowland HM (2022). Activation of the Nucleus Taeniae of the Amygdala by Umami Taste in Domestic Chicks (Gallus gallus). Frontiers in Physiology. 13, 897931. DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2022.897931
* These authors share last authorship
26. Costalunga G, Kobylkov D, Rosa-Salva O, Vallortigara G, Mayer U (2022). Light-incubation effects on lateralization of single unit responses in the visual Wulst of domestic chick . Brain Structure and Function. 227, 497–513. DOI: 10.1007/s00429-021-02259-y
2021
25. Morandi-Raikova A, Danieli K, Lorenzi E, Rosa Salva O, Mayer U (2021). Anatomical asymmetries in the tectofugal pathway of dark-incubated domestic chicks: rightwards lateralization of parvalbumin neurons in the entopallium. Laterality. 26(1-2):163-185. DOI: 10.1080/1357650X.2021.1873357
24. Rosa Salva O, Mayer U, Versace E, Hebert M, Lemaire BS, Vallortigara G (2021). Sensitive periods for social development: Interactions between predisposed and learned mechanisms (Gallus gallus). Cognition. 213:10455. DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104552
23. Morandi-Raikova A, Mayer U (2021). Selective activation of the right hippocampus during navigation by spatial cues in domestic chicks (Gallus gallus). Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. 177:107344. DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2020.107344
22. Corrales-Parada CD, Morandi-Raikova A, Rosa-Salva O, Mayer U (2021). Neural basis of unfamiliar conspecific recognition in domestic chicks (Gallus gallus domesticus). Behavioural Brain Research. 397:112927. DOI:10.1016/j.bbr.2020.112927
2020
21. Morandi-Raikova A, Mayer U (2020). The effect of monocular occlusion on hippocampal c-Fos expression in domestic chicks (Gallus gallus). Scientific Reports. 10:7205. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-64224-9
20. Morandi-Raikova A, Vallortigara G, Mayer U (2020). The use of spatial and local cues for orientation in domestic chicks (Gallus gallus). Animal Cognition. 23, 367–387.
doi:10.1007/s10071-019-01342-6
2019
19. *Rosa-Salva O, *Mayer U, Vallortigara G (2019). Unlearned visual preferences for the head region in domestic chicks. PLOS One. 14(9): e0222079
* These authors
contributed equally to this work
18. Mayer U, Rosa-Salva O, Loveland JL, Vallortigara G (2019). Selective response of the nucleus taeniae of the amygdala to a naturalistic social stimulus in visually naive domestic chicks. Scientific Reports. 9:9849: DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-46322-5
17. Lorenzi E, Mayer U, Rosa-Salva O, Morandi-Raikova A, Vallortigara G (2019).Spontaneous and light-induced lateralization of immediate early genes expression in domestic chicks. Behavioural
Brain
Research. 368: DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2019.111905
16. Golücke S, Bischof HJ, Engelmann J, *Caspers B,
*Mayer U (2019).Social odour activates the hippocampal formation in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata). Behavioural
Brain
Research. 364: 41-49
* Joint last authorship
2018
15.
*Krause ET, *Bischof HJ, *Engel K, *Golüke S, *Maraci Ö, *Mayer U,
*Sauer J, *Caspers BA (2018). Olfaction
in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia
guttata): What is known and further perspectives. In Advances
of the Study of Behavior. Volume 50. (ed. Marc Naguib, Louise Barrett, Susan D. Healy, Jeffrey Podos, Leigh W. Simmons and Marlene Zuk), pp 37-85, Academic Press.
* All authors contributed equally
14. Mayer U, Bhushan R, Vallortigara G, Lee SA (2018). Representation of
environmental shape in the hippocampal formation of
domestic chicks (Gallus gallus). Brain Structure and Function. 223: 941-953
2017
13. Lorenzi E, Mayer U, Rosa Salva O,
Vallortigara G (2017).Dynamic features of
animate motion activate septal and preoptic areas
in visually naïve chicks (Gallus
gallus). Neuroscience. 354:54-68
12. *Di Giorgio E, *Loveland JL,
*Mayer U, *Rosa-Salva O, *Versace E,
Vallortigara G (2017). Filial responses as
predisposed and learned
preferences: Early attachment in chicks and babies. Behavioural
Brain
Research. 325:90-104.
* These authors
contributed equally to this work and are listed in alphabetical order
11. Mayer U, Rosa
Salva O, Morbioli F, Vallortigara G (2017). The
motion of an alive conspecific activates septal and preoptic areas in
naive domestic chicks (Gallus gallus). European Journal of
Neuroscience. 45(3):423-432
10. Mayer U, Rosa
Salva O, Vallortigara G (2017). First exposure to
an
alive conspecific activates septal and amygdaloid nuclei in
visually-naïve domestic chicks (Gallus
gallus). Behavioural Brain
Research. 317:71-81
2016
9. Mayer U, Rosa
Salva O, Lorenzi E, Vallortigara G (2016). Social
predisposition dependent neuronal activity in the intermediate medial
mesopallium of domestic chicks (Gallus
gallus domesticus).Behavioural
Brain Research 310: 93-102.
8. *Bischof HJ,
*Eckmeier D, *Keary N, *Löwel S, *Mayer U,*Michael N
(2016). Multiple
Visual Field Representations in the Visual Wulst of a
Laterally Eyed Bird, the Zebra Finch (Taeniopygia
guttata). PLOS One 11(5): e0154927.
* All authors
contributed equally to this work and are listed in alphabetical order
7. Mayer U, Pecchia
T, Bingman VP, Flore M, Vallortigara G (2016). Hippocampus and
medial striatum dissociation during goal navigation by
geometry or features in the domestic chick: an immediate early gene
study. Hippocampus 26(1):27-40.
2008-2015
6. Rosa Salva O,
Mayer U, Vallortigara G (2015). Roots of a social
brain: developmental models of emerging animacy-detection mechanisms. Neuroscience &
Biobehavioral Reviews 50:150-68.
5. Mayer U, Watanabe
S, Bischof HJ (2013). Spatial memory and
the avian
hippocampus: research in zebra finches. Journal of Physiology – Paris 107 (1-2): 2-12.
4. Mayer U, Bischof
HJ (2012). Brain activation
pattern depends on
the strategy chosen by zebra finches to solve an orientation task. The
Journal of Experimental Biology 215: 426-434.
3. Watanabe S, Mayer
U, Bischof HJ (2011). Visual wulst
analyses
"where" and entopallium analyses "what" in zebra finch visual system. Behavioural Brain
Research 222(1):51-56.
2. Mayer U, Watanabe
S, Bischof HJ (2010). Hippocampal
activation of
immediate early genes zenk and c-Fos in zebra finches (Taeniopygia
guttata) during learning and recall of a spatial memory task. Neurobiology of
Learning and Memory 93(3):322-9.
1. Watanabe S, Mayer
U, Bischof HJ (2008). Pattern
discrimination is
affected by entopallial but not by hippocampal lesions in zebra
finches. Behavioural
Brain Research 190: 201-205.