Visual Lateralization

Sleeping in Flight: Adaptations of a Bird’s Brain

Flying has required birds to develop a plethora of tools to make it as efficient as possible. These biological tools range from different body sizes, body weights, wingspans, feather numbers and their distribution, to an increase in brain to body size ratio to accommodate more developed functions. Multiple types of…

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Catherine Xu, Stephanie Makhlouf, Young Chae Han, and Ziyad Bouslama

Visual Lateralization in the Animal Kingdom

The vertebrate brain has succeeded in the specialization of different traits and abilities through dividing it into two hemispheres, where the left hemisphere is better than the right one when conducting certain tasks, and vice versa. This specialization, called brain lateralization, also effects vision in vertebrates. In fact, visual lateralization,…

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Tuna Gedik, Nassib Hassouna, Mohul Sharma, and Michelle Sateen Yazbek