Anna Kis

The dog as a model for hemispatial neglect.
Behavioural and psychophysiological parallels 

The present study is a pioneer to relate human unilateral spatial neglect disorder to dogs’ side-bias. Family dogs with previous history of side-bias in cognitive experiments participated in a series of two-way food choice tasks manipulating peri-and extrapersonal space and the reference of choice (egocentric vs. allocentric). Furthermore, we recorded sleep polysomnography data and compared lateralized brain activity during sleep with behavioural data.