Valeria Anna Sovrano

Valeria Anna Sovrano is a researcher at the Animal Cognition and Neuroscience Lab.

Main interests

Spatial cognition in fish. I am studying the mechanisms that underlie the use of geometrical information in spatial navigation.

Visual perception in fish. I am currently investigating some basic mechanisms such as perception of amodal completion and subjective contours in fish.

Publications (last three years):

2008

SOVRANO, V.A., & Bisazza, A. (2008). Recognition of partly occluded objects by fish. Animal Cognition,11(1),161-166. IF: 2.45.

Zucca, P., & SOVRANO, V.A. (2008). Animal lateralization and social recognition: Quails use their left visual hemifield when approaching a companion and their right visual hemifield when approaching a stranger. Cortex, 44, 13-20. IF: 3.584

SOVRANO, V.A. (2008). La geometria nel cervello. Le Scienze, 482, 68-74.

2009

Andrew, R.J., Dharmaretnam, M., Győri, B., Miklόsi, A., Watkins, J.A.S., SOVRANO, V.A. (2009). Precise endogenous control of involvement of right and left visual structures in assessment by zebrafish. Behavioural Brain Research, 196, 99-105. IF: 2.865

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

Vallortigara, G., SOVRANO, V.A., Chiandetti, C. (2009). Doing Socrates Experiment Right: Controlled-rearing Studies of Geometrical Knowledge in Animals. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 19, 20-26.

SOVRANO, V.A., Zucca, P., Regolin, L. (2009). Il comportamento degli animali. Evoluzione, cognizione e benessere. Carocci Editore, Roma. 

2010

Truppa, V., SOVRANO, V.A., Spinozzi, G., Bisazza, A. (2010). Processing of visual hierarchical stimuli by fish (Xenotoca eiseni). Behavioural Brain Research, 207, 51-60.

Vallortigara, G., Chiandetti, C., Rugani, R., SOVRANO, V.A., Regolin, L. (2010) Animal Cognition. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 1, 882-893.

Vallortigara, G., Chiandetti, C., SOVRANO, V.A. Brain asimmetry (animal). Wiley, Cognitive Science, in press.

For the complete list of publications, visit U-Gov catalogue, here.