Publications
Peer-reviewed Articles [full list]
DISSEGNA A, CHIANDETTI C (2024) Artificial light at night alters risk-related behaviors of the ground-dwelling isopod Armodillidium pallasii. Submitted
TORREGGIANI G, MANFRIN C, GIGLIO A, DISSEGNA A, CHIANDETTI C, GIOTTA P, RENZI M, ANSELMI S, BENTIVOGLIO T, BABCZYNSKA A, BATTISTELLA S, GIULIANINI PG (2024) The fate of tire and road abrasion particles on terrestrial arthropods: effects on the soil isopod Armodillidium pallasii. Submitted
MALDARELLI G, DISSEGNA A, RAVIGNANI A, CHIANDETTI C (2024) Chicks produce consonant, sometimes jazzy, sounds. Under rev
DISSEGNA A, TURATTO M, CHIANDETTI C (2024) The Mealworm vs Descartes: Intentional Behaviour in Tenebrio molitor Larvae. Submitted
DE TOMMASO M, CHIANDETTI C, TURATTO M (2023) Habituation to onset capture via associative links with contextual information. Visual Cognition, accepted
DISSEGNA A, BORRELLI L, PONTE G, CHIANDETTI C, FIORITO G (2023) Individual Differences in Behavioral Performances in Octopus vulgaris. Biology, 12(12), 1487
CHIANDETTI C, DISSEGNA A, ROGERS LJ, TURATTO M (2023) Unlocking the Symmetric Transfer of Irrelevant Information: Gene-Environment Interplay and Enhanced Interhemispheric Cross-Talk. Biology Letters 19, 20230267
DISSEGNA A, GRASSI M, CHIANDETTI C (2022) Individual differences in habituation: innate covariation between habituation, exploration, and body size in naïve chicks (Gallus gallus). Behavioural Processes, 104705
SZABO' E, CHIANDETTI C, TEGLAS ERNO, VERSACE E, CSIBRA G, KOVACS MA, VALLORTIGARA G (2022) Young domestic chicks spontaneously represent the absence of objects. eLife, 11:e67208
PONTE G, CHIANDETTI C, EDELMAN DB, IMPERADORE P, PIERONI EM, FIORITO G (2022) Cephalopod Behavior: From Neural Plasticity to Consciousness. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 15:787139
DISSEGNA A, TURATTO M, CHIANDETTI C (2021). Context-specific habituation: A review. Animals, 11(6), 1767
MANFRIN C, GIGLIO A, PALLAVICINI L, ZAMPA L, VECCHIET L, CAPUTI A, CHIANDETTI C, BEORCHIA A, VIDIMARI R, GIULIANINI PG (2021). Medium‐term feasibility of the management of the invasive crayfish Procambarus clarkii with the Sterile Males Release Technique SMRT. Pest Management Science, 77(5) 2494-2501
DISSEGNA A, CAPUTI A, CHIANDETTI C (2020). Long-lasting generalization triggered by a single trial event in the invasive crayfish Procambarus clarkii. Journal of Experimental Biology, 223(22)
BORRELLI L, CHIANDETTI C, FIORITO G (2020). A standardized battery of tests to measure Octopus vulgaris’ behavioural performance. Invertebrate Neuroscience, 20(4)
CHIANDETTI C, TURATTO M (2019). Habituation of mating preferences: a comment on Daniel, Koffinas and Hughes (2019). Proc R Soc B, 286(1913) 20191373
CHIANDETTI C, VALLORTIGARA G (2019). Distinct effect of early and late embryonic light stimulation on chicks' lateralization. Neuroscience, 414: 1-7 50 days free access!
TURATTO M, DISSEGNA A, CHIANDETTI C (2019). Context learning before birth: Evidence from the chick embryo, Biology Letters, 15(7) 20190104
TURATTO M, BONETTI F, CHIANDETTI C, PASCUCCI D (2019). Context-specific distractors rejection: contextual cues control long-term habituation of attentional capture by abrupt onsets. Visual Cognition, 27(3-4) 291-304
DE TOMMASO M, KAPLAN G, CHIANDETTI C, VALLORTIGARA G (2019). Naïve 3-day-old domestic chicks (Gallus gallus) are attracted to discrete acoustic patterns characterizing natural vocalizations. J Comp Psychol, 133(1) 118-131
DISSEGNA A, TURATTO M, CHIANDETTI C (2018). Short-term memory in habituation and dishabituation of newborn chicks’ freezing response. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 44(4) 441-6
CHIANDETTI C, DISSEGNA A, TURATTO M (2018). Rapid plasticity attenuation soon after birth revealed by habituation in newborn chicks. Dev Psychobiol, 60(4) 440-448
CHIANDETTI C (2018). Hier bin Ich: Wo bist Du? The affiliative imprinting phenomenon in the modern study of animal cognition. Gestalt Theory, 40(2) 189-205
CHIANDETTI C, TURATTO M (2017). Context-specific habituation of the freezing response in newborn chicks, Behav Neurosci, 131(5) 437-446
CHIANDETTI C, CAPUTI A (2017). Visual shape recognition in crayfish as revealed by habituation, Animal Behavior and Cognition 4(3) 242-251
CHIANDETTI C, LEMAIRE BS, VERSACE E, VALLORTIGARA G (2017). Early- and Late-light embryonic stimulation modulates similarly chicks' ability to filter out distractors. Symmetry 9: 84
SOVRANO VA, CHIANDETTI C (2017). Reorientation ability in redtail splitfin (Xenotoca eiseni): Role of environmental shape, rearing in group and exposure time. Bio Comm 62(1): 48-56
CHIANDETTI C, AVELLA S, FONGARO E & CERRI F (2016). Can clicker training facilitate conditioning in dogs? Appl Anim Behav Sci 184: 109-116
CHIANDETTI C (2016). A commentary on "Cats prefer species-appropriate music". Front Psychol, Cogn Sci 7:594
CHIANDETTI C, GERBINO W (2015). Comparative Psychology: A perspective rather than a discipline. Front Psychol, Comp Psychol 6:1828
CHIANDETTI C, SPELKE ES, VALLORTIGARA G (2015). Inexperienced chicks use geometry to spontaneous reorient to an artificial social partner. Dev Sci 18(6) 972-978 graphical abstract
CHIANDETTI C, PECCHIA T, PATT F, VALLORTIGARA G (2014). Visual hierarchical processing and lateralization of cognitive functions through chicks' eyes. PLoS ONE 9(1): e84435
CHIANDETTI C, GALLIUSSI J, ANDREW RJ, VALLORTIGARA G (2013). Early-light embryonic stimulation suggests a second route, via gene activation, to cerebral lateralization in vertebrates. Sci Rep 3 2701
CHIANDETTI C, VALLORTIGARA G (2013). The Origins of Physics, Number and Space Cognition: Insights from a Chick’s Brain. Human Evol 28(1-2) 17-32
TOMMASI L, CHIANDETTI C, PECCHIA T, SOVRANO VA, VALLORTIGARA G (2012). From natural geometry to spatial cognition. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 36(2) 799–824
CHIANDETTI C, VALLORTIGARA G (2011). Chicks like consonant music. Psychol Sci 22(10) 1270-1273
CHIANDETTI C (2011). Pseudoneglect and embryonic light stimulation in the avian brain. Behav Neurosci 125(5) 775-782
CHIANDETTI C, VALLORTIGARA G (2011). Intuitive physical reasoning about occluded objects by inexperienced chicks. Proc R Soc B 278(1718) 2621-2627
KELLY DM, DUROCHER S, CHIANDETTI C, VALLORTIGARA G (2011). A misunderstanding of principal and medial axes? Reply to Sturz & Bodily. Biol Letters 7(5) 649-650
KELLY DM, CHIANDETTI C, VALLORTIGARA G (2011). Re-orienting in space: Do animals use global or local geometry strategies? Biol Letters 7(3) 372-375
VALLORTIGARA G, CHIANDETTI C, SOVRANO VA (2011). Brain Asymmetry (animal). Wiley Interdisciplinar Reviews: Cognitive Science 2(2) 146-157
VALLORTIGARA G, REGOLIN L, CHIANDETTI C, RUGANI R (2010). Rudiments of mind: Insights through the chick model on number and space cognition in animals. Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews (5) 78-99
VALLORTIGARA G, CHIANDETTI C, RUGANI R, SOVRANO VA, REGOLIN L (2010). Animal Cognition. Wiley Interdisciplinar Reviews: Cognitive Science (1) 882-893
CHIANDETTI C, VALLORTIGARA G (2010). Experience and geometry: Controlled-rearing studies with chicks. Anim Cogn (13) 463-470
CHIANDETTI C, VALLORTIGARA G (2010). Animals' representation of enclosed spaces: Evidence for use of a similar frame of reference following different disorientation procedures. J Comp Psychol 124(2) 139-46
VALLORTIGARA G, SOVRANO VA, CHIANDETTI C (2009). Doing Socrates Experiment Right: Controlled-rearing Studies of Geometrical knowledge in Animals. Curr Op Neurobiol (19) 20-26
CHIANDETTI C, VALLORTIGARA G (2009). Effects of embryonic light stimulation on the ability to discriminate left from right in the domestic chick. Behav Brain Res (198) 240-246
CHIANDETTI C, VALLORTIGARA G (2008). Spatial reorientation in large and small enclosures: Comparative and developmental perspectives. Cogn Proc (9) 229-238
CHIANDETTI C, VALLORTIGARA G (2008). Is there an innate geometric module? Effects of experience with angular geometric cues on spatial re-orientation based on the shape of the environment. Anim Cogn (11) 139-146
MAIOLI F, COVERI M, PAGNI P, CHIANDETTI C, MARCHETTI C, CIARROCCHI R, RUGGERO C, NATIVIO V, ONESTI A, D’ANASTASIO C, PEDONE V (2007). Conversion of mild cognitive impairment to dementia in elderly subjects: a preliminary study in memory and cognitive disorder unit. Arch Gerontol Geriatr Suppl (1) 233-241
CHIANDETTI C, REGOLIN L, SOVRANO VA, VALLORTIGARA G (2007). Spatial reorientation: The effects of space size on the encoding of landmark and geometry information. Anim Cogn (10) 159-168
CHIANDETTI C, REGOLIN L, ROGERS LJ, VALLORTIGARA G (2005). Effects of light stimulation in embryo on the use of position-specific and object-specific cues in binocular and monocular chicks. Behav Brain Res (163) 10-17
Invited book chapters
CHIANDETTI C (2024). Manipulation of Cerebral Lateralization Strength through Embryonic Light Stimulation in Birds. In: Lateralized brain functions. Methods in human and non-human species. Neuromethods. (Lesley J. Rogers and Giorgio Vallortigara Eds.) Springer, in press
CHIANDETTI C (2020). How the Evolutive Continuity of Cognition Challenges ‘Us’/‘Them’ Dichotomies. In: Human Diversity in Context, Ed. C. Ferrini, EUT, Trieste, pp75-98
CHIANDETTI C, DE SIO F, PONTE G, FIORITO G. Challenging cephalopods behavioural and neural plasticity: sociality, territorial behaviour and "mind-reading". In: The Mind-Reading brains. Springer, in press
CHIANDETTI C, VALLORTIGARA G (2018). Chicken: Cognition in the poultry yard. In: Field and laboratory methods in animal cognition. A comparative guide. (Nereida Bueno-Guerra and Federica Amici Eds.) Cambridge University Press, pp97-118
VALLORTIGARA G, CHIANDETTI C (2017). Objects and space in an avian brain. In: Avian cognition (Carel ten Cate and Susan D. Healy Eds.) Cambridge University Press, pp141-162
CHIANDETTI C (2017). Manipulation of strength of cerebral lateralization via embryonic light stimulation in birds. In: Lateralized brain functions. Methods in human and non-human species. Neuromethods. (Lesley J. Rogers and Giorgio Vallortigara Eds.) Springer, pp611-631
CHIANDETTI C (2016). Rara avis (among the others). The intellectual abilities of the domestic chicken. In: Animal flatmates: Deep into their minds (Rachele Malavasi Ed.) Smashwords, pp8-23
CHIANDETTI C (2015). Rara avis (tra gli altri). Le abilità socio-intellettuali del pollo domestico. In: Think Animal - Il mondo visto dagli animali non umani (Rachele Malavasi Ed.) Studioverde Edizioni, pp68-79
CHIANDETTI C (2012). Musicanti naturali: le radici delle abilità musicali degli animali. In: Filogenesi e Ontogenesi della Musica. (G. Avanzini, T. Longo, M. Majno, S. Malavasi, D. Martinelli Eds.) FrancoAngeli pp55-66
CHIANDETTI C, CLARA E, REGOLIN L, TOMMASI L, VALLORTIGARA G (2007). Plasticity in the avian brain: from molecular to behavioural neurobiology. In: Evolutionary Molecular Strategies and Plasticity (Canonaco M and Facciolo RM Eds.) pp187-214
Encyclopedia Entries
CHIANDETTI C (2018). Shaping. In Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior (Vonk J. and Shackelford T.K.) Springer, Cham
RAVIGNANI A, CHIANDETTI C, KOTZ SA (2018). Rhythm and music in animal signals. In Encyclopedia of animal behavior 2e (Choe J.) Elsevier Ltd
Invited papers
DE TOMMASO M, CHIANDETTI C, TURATTO M (2023) Habituation contexts facilitate new distractor filtering. Learning to ignore is easier where we already did it. Gestalt Theory accepted
TURATTO M, DISSEGNA A, DE TOMMASO M, CHIANDETTI C (2023) L’abituazione, un fenomeno mentale sottovalutato: teoria, implicazioni e applicazioni. Giornale Italiano di Psicologia 3, 559-590
TURATTO M, DISSEGNA A, DE TOMMASO M, CHIANDETTI C (2023) Replica ai commenti dell'articolo bersaglio "L'abituazione, un fenomeno mentale sottovalutato: teoria, implicazioni e applicazioni". Giornale Italiano di Psicologia 3, 637-647
CHIANDETTI C, GONAN S (2022). Intelligenze animali. Ovvero, creature intelligenti e stupide. Culture della sostenibilità 30, 150 DOI 10.7402/CDS.30.009
CHIANDETTI C (2021). Di Galline e musica. Animal Studies
CHIANDETTI C (2018). Chickens play to the crowd. Animal Sentience 17(13) 1-5
CHIANDETTI C (2015). Alle radici di musica ed emozioni. Sistemi intelligenti 2, 409-416
Monographies
CHIANDETTI C, DEGANO E (2017). Animali. Abilità uniche e condivise tra le specie. Mondadori Università
Posters [a selection]
Things that sing in the night: melodicand rhythmic intervals in a nocturnal bird | MUSIC & THE MIND | 2023
The Octopus vulgaris 'case': exploring neural hallmarks for consciousness | SINS | 2023
Running into the Lion's Den: Naïve 3-day-old Domestic Chicks Are Attracted to Predator Voices | COGEVO | 2023
Teleological behavior in Tenebrio molitor larvae | COGEVO | 2023
The search of neural correlates of conscious states in cephalopods molluscs | COGEVO | 2023
Do Non-singing Birds have got Rhythm too? Insights from Timing Analysis of Domestic Chicks' Contact Calls | ESCBC | 2022
The social nature of consonant sounds. Insights from chicks | Neuromusic VII | 2021
Calming effect of rocking in an avian species | TSPC | 2019
Subverting the naïve (mis)perception of animal intelligence: From the scala naturae to the Darwinian tree via a simple survey | Avian hatching as a strategy to test context-specific habituation | ECVP | 2018
Pre and post hatching associative habituation in chicks | Ten years of the Mind/Brain Sciences at the University of Trento | 2017
Poster on consonance | poster on detour | poster on looming | poster on grasping | TSPC | Trieste Symposium on Perception and Cognition | 2016
Decapod crustaceans used for scientific research: A new challenge for life scientists in animal care and welfare | AISAL | Modelli animali e modelli alterativi: Quale futuro per la ricerca? | 2016 | download the list of references | contacts
Habituation reveals context-dependent learning in newborn chicks | AAPC | Alps-Adria Psychology Conference | 2016
Reasons to laugh | COGEVO | Rovereto Workshop on Cognition and Evolution | 2016
Exploring lateralization in a non-social crustacean, the crayfish Pocambarus clarkii | COGEVO | Rovereto Workshop on Cognition and Evolution | 2016
Processing of rhythmical acoustic patterns in domestic chicks. A behavioural exploration | TSPC | Trieste Symposium on Perception and Cognition | 2015
Asymmetric light stimulation may alter hemispheric attentional bias in chicks | RAW | Rovereto Attention Workshop | 2015
Innate appreciation of surfaces arrangement to navigate in the environment | SEQS | Workshop on Science of Experiential and Qualitative Spaces | 2014
Would you exchange you mum's bag with a stranger's identical one? Chicks neither | COGEVO | Rovereto Workshop on Cognition and Evolution | 2012
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