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Mirko Zanon

@mirckuz.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral researcher in neuroscience 🧠 working on animal cognition 🐣🐟🐝 @ University of Trento🇮🇹🇪🇺

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CIMeC_UniTrento @cimecunitrento.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
2/2 🧵 Read the full study by @gvallortigara.bsky.social, allortigara.bsky.social, @anastasiamorandi.bsky.social and @mirckuz.bsky.social : “The naive brain detects face-to-face biological motion” iScience 🔗‍️ www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
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The naive brain detects face-to-face biological motion
Neuroscience; Behavioral neuroscience; Developmental biology
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Anastasia Morandi Raikova @anastasiamorandi.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Our new paper is out! The naive brain detects face-to-face biological motion. @mirckuz.bsky.social @gvallortigara.bsky.social www.cell.com/iscience/ful... #biological_motion #innate #social_behaviour_network #face_to_face #NCL #chicks
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CIMeC_UniTrento @cimecunitrento.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
New in Proceedings B @royalsocietypublishing.org: a study involving Prof. Giorgio Vallortigara and first author Mirko Zanon, CIMeC post doc, et al. suggests that honeybee #numericalcognition is not driven by spatial frequency, but reflects true numerosity processing. 🔗‍️ doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
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Giorgio Vallortigara @gvallortigara.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Our new paper on #numerosity in #bees is out #number_sense @mirckuz.bsky.social uz12 @TheBeesearcher @OzBeeUVBG @martingiurfa.bsky.social
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Giorgio Vallortigara @gvallortigara.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Our paper on Predisposed preferences for multipoint visual statistics in baby chicks is out @mirckuz.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
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Predisposed and learned preferences for multipoint visual statistics in visually naive newly hatched chicks
Abstract. Recent studies have revealed that human and non-human animals (rats) can detect luminance distribution and correlations between pixels in an imag
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Giorgio Vallortigara @gvallortigara.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Our paper on #number discrimination in #Danionella is out #zebrafish #numbersense #number_sense #number @mirkuz12 #scott_fraser cell.com/iscience/ful...
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Numerical discrimination in Danionella
The transparent teleost Danionella cerebrum offers unique advantages for neuroscience research, including small size, lifelong cranial transparency, and a simplified brain. Despite its suitability for...
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