MARCO
DADDA
Associate
Professor
selected publications
2024 – Handedness in Animals and Plants
2024 – One-trial odour recognition learning and its underlying brain areas in the zebrafish
2024 – Exploring the Importance of Environmental Complexity for Newly Hatched Zebrafish
2023 – Illu-Shoal Choice: An Exploration of Different Means for Enrichment of Captive Zebrafish
2023 – Shortest path choice in zebrafish (Danio rerio)
2022 – Learning and visual discrimination in newly hatched zebrafish
2022 – Environmental enrichment decreases anxiety-like behavior in zebrafish larvae
2022 – Effects of environmental enrichment on recognition memory in zebrafish larvae
complete list of publications
Mair, A., Bisazza, A., Dadda, M., Santacà, M.
Shortest path choice in zebrafish (Danio rerio)
Mair, A., Dadda, M., Kitaoka, A., Agrillo, C. Illu-Shoal Choice: An Exploration of Different Means for Enrichment of Captive Zebrafish
Santacà, M., Dadda, M., Dalla Valle, L., Fontana, C., Gjinaj, G., Bisazza, A. Learning and visual discrimination in newly hatched zebrafish
Gatto, E., Dadda, M., Bruzzone, M., Chiarello, E., De Russi, G., Maschio, M.D., Bisazza, A., Lucon-Xiccato, T. Environmental enrichment decreases anxiety-like behavior in zebrafish larvae
Gatto, E., Bruzzone, M., Maschio, M.D., Dadda, M. Effects of environmental enrichment on recognition memory in zebrafish larvae
Santacà, M., Dadda, M., Miletto Petrazzini, M.E., Bisazza, A. Stimulus characteristics, learning bias and visual discrimination in zebrafish (Danio rerio)
Santacà, M., Dadda, M., Bisazza, A. The role of visual and olfactory cues in social decisions of guppies and zebrafish
Gatto, E., Santacà, M., Verza, I., Dadda, M., Bisazza, A. Automated operant conditioning devices for fish. Do they work?
Miletto Petrazzini, M.E., Gambaretto, L., Dadda, M., Brennan, C., Agrillo, C. Are cerebral and behavioural lateralization related to anxiety-like traits in the animal model zebrafish (Danio rerio)?
Gatto, E., Lucon-Xiccato, T., Bisazza, A., Manabe, K., Dadda, M. The devil is in the detail: Zebrafish learn to discriminate visual stimuli only if salient
Cappellato, A., Petrazzini, M.E.M., Bisazza, A., Dadda, M., Agrillo, C. Susceptibility to size visual illusions in a non-primate mammal (Equus caballus)
Miletto Petrazzini, M.E., Pecunioso, A., Dadda, M., Agrillo, C. Corrigendum: Searching for the Critical p of Macphail’s Null Hypothesis: The Contribution of Numerical Abilities of Fish
Lucon-Xiccato, T., Dadda, M., Bisazza, A. Vegetation cover induces developmental plasticity of lateralization in tadpoles
Petrazzini, M.E.M., Pecunioso, A., Dadda, M., Agrillo, C. Does brain lateralization affect the performance in binary choice tasks? A study in the animal model Danio rerio
Dadda, M., Vendramin, V., Agrillo, C. Prenatal visual exposure to a predator influences lateralization in goldbelly topminnows
Lucon-Xiccato, T., Montalbano, G., Dadda, M., Bertolucci, C. Lateralization correlates with individual differences in inhibitory control in zebrafish
Miletto Petrazzini, M.E., Pecunioso, A., Dadda, M., Agrillo, C. Searching for the Critical p of Macphail’s Null Hypothesis: The Contribution of Numerical Abilities of Fish
Santacà, M., Miletto Petrazzini, M.E., Dadda, M., Agrillo, C. Forest before the trees in the aquatic world: Global and local processing in teleost fishes
Petrazzini, M.E.M., Pecunioso, A., Dadda, M., Agrillo, C. The impact of brain lateralization and Anxiety-Like behaviour in an extensive operant conditioning task in Zebrafish (Danio rerio)
Gatto, E., Agrillo, C., Brown, C., Dadda, M. Individual differences in numerical skills are influenced by brain lateralization in guppies (Poecilia reticulata)
Lucon-Xiccato, T., Santacà, M., Miletto Petrazzini, M.E., Agrillo, C., Dadda, M. Guppies, Poecilia reticulata, perceive a reversed Delboeuf illusion
Castiello, U., Dadda, M. A review and consideration on the kinematics of reach-to-grasp movements in macaque monkeys
Lucon-Xiccato, T., Dadda, M. Personality and cognition: Sociability negatively predicts shoal size discrimination performance in guppies
Lucon-Xiccato, T., Dadda, M., Gatto, E., Bisazza, A. Development and testing of a rapid method for measuring shoal size discrimination
Gatto, E., Lucon-Xiccato, T., Savaşçı, B.B., Dadda, M., Bisazza, A. Experimental setting affects the performance of guppies in a numerical discrimination task
Lucon-Xiccato, T., Dadda, M. Individual guppies differ in quantity discrimination performance across antipredator and foraging contexts
Dadda, M., Bisazza, A. Early visual experience influences behavioral lateralization in the guppy
Lucon-Xiccato, T., Dadda, M. Guppies show behavioural but not cognitive sex differences in a novel object recognition test
Lucon-Xiccato, T., Dadda, M., Bisazza, A. Sex Differences in Discrimination of Shoal Size in the Guppy (Poecilia reticulata)
Forsatkar, M.N., Dadda, M., Nematollahi, M.A. Lateralization of Aggression during Reproduction in Male Siamese Fighting Fish
Dadda, M., Agrillo, C., Bisazza, A., Brown, C. Laterality enhances numerical skills in the guppy, Poecilia reticulata
Dadda, M. Female social response to male sexual harassment in poeciliid fish: A comparison of six species
Gori, S., Agrillo, C., Dadda, M., Bisazza, A. Do fish perceive illusory motion?
Lucon-Xiccato, T., Dadda, M. Assessing memory in zebrafish using the one-trial test
Agrillo, C., Miletto Petrazzini, M.E., Dadda, M. Illusory patterns are fishy for fish, too
Dadda, M., Nepomnyashchikh, V.A., Izvekov, E.I., Bisazza, A. Individual-level consistency of different laterality measures in the goldbelly topminnow
Dadda, M., Bisazza, A. Prenatal light exposure affects development of behavioural lateralization in a livebearing fish
Miletto Petrazzini, M.E., Agrillo, C., Piffer, L., Dadda, M., Bisazza, A. Development and application of a new method to investigate cognition in newborn guppies
Agrillo, C., Miletto Petrazzini, M.E., Piffer, L., Dadda, M., Bisazza, A. A new training procedure for studying discrimination learning in fish
Domenichini, A., Dadda, M., Facchin, L., Bisazza, A., Argenton, F. Isolation and genetic characterization of mother-of-snow-white, a maternal effect allele affecting laterality and lateralized behaviors in zebrafish
Agrillo, C., Dadda, M., Serena, G., Bisazza, A. Use of number by fish
Dadda, M., Koolhaas, W.H., Domenici, P. Behavioural asymmetry affects escape performance in a teleost fish
Dadda, M., Domenichini, A., Piffer, L., Argenton, F., Bisazza, A. Early differences in epithalamic left-right asymmetry influence lateralization and personality of adult zebrafish
Dadda, M., Zandonà, E., Agrillo, C., Bisazza, A. The costs of hemispheric specialization in a fish
Agrillo, C., Dadda, M., Bisazza, A. Escape behaviour elicited by a visual stimulus. A comparison between lateralised and non-lateralised female topminnows
Dadda, M., Piffer, L., Agrillo, C., Bisazza, A. Spontaneous number representation in mosquitofish
Agrillo, C., Dadda, M., Serena, G., Bisazza, A. Use of number by fish
Dadda, M., Pilastro, A., Bisazza, A. Innate responses to male sexual harassment in female mosquitofish
Agrillo, C., Dadda, M., Serena, G., Bisazza, A. Do fish count? Spontaneous discrimination of quantity in female mosquitofish
Agrillo, C., Dadda, M., Serena, G. Choice of female groups by male mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki)
Taglialatela, J.P., Dadda, M., Hopkins, W.D. Sex differences in asymmetry of the planum parietale in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)
Dadda, M., Zandonà, E., Bisazza, A. Emotional responsiveness in fish from lines artificially selected for a high or low degree of laterality
Pilastro, A., Mandelli, M., Gasparini, C., Dadda, M., Bisazza, A. Copulation duration, insemination efficiency and male attractiveness in guppies
Bisazza, A., Dadda, M., Facchin, L., Vigo, F. Artificial selection on laterality in the teleost fish Girardinus falcatus
Agrillo, C., Dadda, M. Discrimination of the larger shoal in the poeciliid fish Girardinus falcatus
Agrillo, C., Dadda, M., Bisazza, A. Quantity discrimination in female mosquitofish
Dadda, M., Bisazza, A. Does brain asymmetry allow efficient performance of simultaneous tasks?
Dadda, M., Cantalupo, C., Hopkins, W.D. Further evidence of an association between handedness and neuroanatomical asymmetries in the primary motor cortex of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)
Agrillo, C., Dadda, M., Bisazza, A. Sexual harassment influences group choice in female mosquitofish
Dadda, M., Bisazza, A. Lateralized female topminnows can forage and attend to a harassing male simultaneously
Sovrano, V.A., Dadda, M., Bisazza, A. Lateralized fish perform better than nonlateralized fish in spatial reorientation tasks
Bisazza, A., Dadda, M. Enhanced schooling performance in lateralized fishes
Dadda, M., Pilastro, A., Bisazza, A. Male sexual harassment and female schooling behaviour in the eastern mosquitofish
Dadda, M. Social aggregation and lateralised response to social stimuli in tadpoles (Bufo bufo): Influence of developmental stage
Bisazza, A., Dadda, M., Cantalupo, C. Further evidence for mirror-reversed laterality in lines of fish selected for leftward or rightward turning when facing a predator model
Dadda, M., Sovrano, V.A., Bisazza, A. Temporal pattern of social aggregation in tadpoles and its influence on the measurement of lateralised response to social stimuli