Journal Articles
"Place" neurons recognize the same spot from close by and far away. Nature. DOI: 10.1038/d41586-025-01716-6
2024Transcriptomic 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
The dorsal part of the anterior tuberal nucleus responds to auditory stimulation in zebrafish (Danio rerio). eNeuro. DOI: 10.1523/ENEURO.0062-24.2024
Noncortical coding of biological motion in newborn chicks’ brain. Cerebral Cortex. DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhae262
Responses in the left and right entopallium are differently affected by light stimulation in embry. iScience. DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.109268
Hierarchical processing of feature, egocentric and relational information for spatial orientation in domestic chicks. Journal of Experimental Biology. DOI:10.1242/jeb.246447
2023In 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
2022Spatial cognition and the avian hippocampus: Research in domestic chicks. Frontiers in Psychology. 13, 1-13 DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1005726
Number neurons in the nidopallium of young domestic chicks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119 (32) e2201039119. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2201039119
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
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
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
2021Anatomical 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
Sensitive periods for social development: Interactions between predisposed and learned mechanisms (Gallus gallus). Cognition. 213:10455. DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104552
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
Neural basis of unfamiliar conspecific recognition in domestic chicks (Gallus gallus domesticus). Behavioural Brain Research. 397:112927. DOI:10.1016/j.bbr.2020.112927
2020The 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
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
Unlearned visual preferences for the head region in domestic chicks.
PLOS One.
14(9): e0222079, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0222079
* These authors contributed equally to this work
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
Spontaneous and light-induced lateralization of immediate early genes expression in domestic chicks. Behavioural Brain Research. 368: DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2019.111905
Social odour activates the hippocampal formation in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata).
Behavioural Brain Research.
364: 41-49
* Joint last authorship
Olfaction in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata): What is known and further perspectives.
Advances of the Study of Behavior.
Volume 50, pp 37-85, Academic Press.
* All authors contributed equally
Representation of environmental shape in the hippocampal formation of domestic chicks (Gallus gallus). Brain Structure and Function. 223: 941-953
2017Dynamic features of animate motion activate septal and preoptic areas in visually naïve chicks (Gallus gallus). Neuroscience. 354:54-68
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
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
First exposure to an alive conspecific activates septal and amygdaloid nuclei in visually-naïve domestic chicks (Gallus gallus). Behavioural Brain Research. 317:71-81
2016Social predisposition dependent neuronal activity in the intermediate medial mesopallium of domestic chicks (Gallus gallus domesticus). Behavioural Brain Research. 310: 93-102
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
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
2008-2015Roots of a social brain: developmental models of emerging animacy-detection mechanisms. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 50:150-68
Spatial memory and the avian hippocampus: research in zebra finches. Journal of Physiology – Paris. 107 (1-2): 2-12
Brain activation pattern depends on the strategy chosen by zebra finches to solve an orientation task. The Journal of Experimental Biology. 215: 426-434
Visual wulst analyses "where" and entopallium analyses "what" in zebra finch visual system. Behavioural Brain Research. 222(1):51-56
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
Pattern discrimination is affected by entopallial but not by hippocampal lesions in zebra finches. Behavioural Brain Research. 190: 201-205