Laterality for the next decade: Computational ethology and the search for minimal condition for cognitive asymmetry

ABSTRACT

In this comment to Ocklenburg et al.’s paper I stressed the contribution that computational ethology can provide to the accurate tracking of lateralized behaviour in a variety of species; I also discussed how current interest in so-called «minimal cognition» may help to disentangle shared and species-specific mechanisms of brain and behavioural asymmetries.

KEYWORDS:

• Lateralization
• asymmetry
• computational ethology
• minimal cognition

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