February 2002. Degree in Experimental Psychology (110 cum laude / 110), University of Padova.
June - December 2005. Yerkes Primate Research Center - Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia, USA).
December 2005. Philosophiae Doctor in Psychobiology. Department of General Psychology, University of Padua.
April 2006 - March 2010. Post-Doc, Department of General Psychology, University of Padua.
June 2009. Friday Harbor Laboratoires (University of Washington, USA).
December 2010. Researcher, Department of General Psychology, University of Padua.
December 2016. Associate Professor, Department of General Psychology, University of Padua.

My research interests are related to animal behavior. In particular:
A) Evolution of behavioral asymmetries and hemispheric specialization in vertebrates.
The majority of my publications cover this area and include behavioral, neuroanatomical and genetic studies:
- Genetic bases and neural bases of cerebral lateralization in model organisms
- Neural bases of cerebral lateralization in non-human primates
- The functions of cerebral lateralization in vertebrates

B) Animal cognition
- Mathematical skills in animals
- Evolution of reproductive strategies in viviparous fish
- Illusions and visual perception in animals

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