Asymmetric number-space association leads to more efficient processing of congruent information in domestic chicks

Maria Loconsole; Lucia Regolin; Rosa Rugani

doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2023.1115662

Asymmetric number-space association leads to more efficient processing of congruent information in domestic chicks

Front Behav Neurosci. 2023 Feb 3:17:1115662. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2023.1115662. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Maria Loconsole^{1

2}, Lucia Regolin¹, Rosa Rugani¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of General Psychology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
² Department of Biological and Experimental Psychology, School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom.

No abstract available

Keywords: congruency of response; domestic chicken; numerical discrimination; proto-arithmetic; space–number association.

Grants and funding

This work was funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant (795242) to RR and by a PRIN 2017 ERC-SH4–A grant (2017PSRHPZ) to LR. This work was carried out within the scope of the project use-inspired basic research, for which the Department of General Psychology has been recognized by the Ministry of University and Research as the Department of Excellence for the period 2018–2022. ML was sponsored by a CARIPARO Foundation Ph.D. scholarship.