1 Marco Dadda Date of birth: 27th of February 1975 ... - CPRG

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Marco Dadda
Date of birth: 27th of February 1975 Codogno (Lodi)
Address: Padova, via Portello 15, Maleo (Lodi), via De Gasperi 15
Current position: PhD student (psychobiology) General Psychology Department –
University of Padova
Curriculum vitae
Education
February 2002 Degree in experimental psychology (110 cum laude / 110) at
the University of Padova discussing the thesis "Selective advantage of brain
lateralisation. A study about the sexual behaviour in the teleost fish Girardinus
falcatus".
March 2002 – March 2003 Post lauream apprenticeship at the Laboratory of
Comparative Psychology (area: general psychology) of the University of Padova
(tutor: Prof. A. Bisazza) and at the L.I.RI.P.A.C. (Laboratory of clinical and applied
psychology research) (area: clinical psychology) of the University of Padova (tutor:
Prof.ssa P. Bisiacchi).
Professional position
May – November 2002 Fellowship post-lauream at the General Psychology
Department of Padova: “Evolution of the reproductive strategies in teleost fish”,
Scientific coordination Prof. Cristina Giacoma, Scientific person in charge: Prof.
Angelo Bisazza.
October 2002 I started my PhD program in psychobiology at the General
Psychology Department of Padova, University of Padova.
January 2005 Post-Doc position at the General Psychology Department of
Padova, University of Padova.
Congress
17 – 20 September 2002 Società Italiana di Etologia (S.I.E.) Torino (Italian
Society of Ethology): poster session: “Selective advantage of brain lateralisation. A
study about the sexual behaviour in the teleost fish Girardinus falcatus ”.

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17 – 20 September 2003 35th Annual General Meeting of the European Brain
and Behaviour Society, Barcelona (Spain): poster session: “Lateralization of response
to social stimuli in tadpoles”
1 – 2 December 2003 First European Conference of Poeciliid Biologists,
Zurich, (Switzerland): talk: “Costs and benefits of cerebral lateralization. The
poeciliid fish Girardinus falcatus as a model species”; poster session: “Effect of male
sexual harassment on schooling behaviour in the eastern mosquitofish”.
2 – 3 September 2004 2 nd International Symposium «Behavioural and
Morphological Asymmetries», St. Petersburg, (Russia): talk: “Advantages of cerebral
lateralization. Evidence from the poeciliid fish Girardinus falcatus”.
15 – 17 September 2004 Convegno della Società Italiana di Etologia (S.I.E.)
Padova (Italian Society of Ethology): talk: “Advantages of cerebral lateralization.
Evidence from the poeciliid fish Girardinus falcatus”; poster session Effect of male
sexual harassment on schooling behaviour in the eastern mosquitofish”.
November 2005 The XIII Kanizsa Lecture, Trieste (Italy). “Numerousness
discrimination in fish: a preliminary investigation in female mosquitofish”. Authors:
Agrillo C, Dadda M & Bisazza A.
December 2005 Second European Conference of Poeciliid Biologists,
Trondheim (Norway). “Discrimination of relative numerosity in fish: a preliminary
investigation in Gambusia holbrooki”. Authors: Agrillo C, Dadda M & Bisazza A.
March 2006 Animal Behaviour Meeting (ASAB), Nottingham (England).
“Numerical competence in fish”. Authors: Agrillo C, Dadda M & Bisazza A.
September 2006 Convegno nazionale della società italiana di etologia (SIE),
Erice (Italy). “Discriminazione di quantità nei pesci”. Authors: Agrillo C, Dadda M
& Bisazza A.
September 2006 Associazione Italiana di Psicologia (A.I.P). Rovereto (TN)
(Italy). “Divisi alla meta. Quando la lateralizzazione permette lo svolgimento di
compiti concomitanti”. Authors: Dadda M & Bisazza A.
Publications
Dadda, M., Bisazza, A. 2006. Does brain asymmetry allow efficient performance of
simultaneous tasks Animal Behaviour 72, 532-529.
Dadda,M., Cantalupo,C., Hopkins,W.D. 2006. Further evidence of an association
between handedness and neuroanatomical asymmetries in the primary motor cortex of
chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).
Neuropsychologia 44, 2582-2586.

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Agrillo, C., Dadda, M., Bisazza, A. Discrimination of relative numerosity in female
mosquitofish. Animal Cognition, in press
Agrillo,C., Dadda,M., Bisazza,A. 2006. Sexual harassment influences group choice in
female mosquitofish. Ethology 112, 592-598.
Dadda,M. & Bisazza,A. 2006. Lateralized female topminnows can forage and attend
to a harassing male simultaneously. Behavioral Ecology 17, 358-363.
Bisazza,A. & Dadda,M. 2005. Enhanced schooling performance in lateralized fishes.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 272, 1677-1681.
Dadda,M., Pilastro,A. & Bisazza,A. 2005. Male sexual harassment and female
schooling behaviour in the eastern mosquitofish. Animal Behaviour 70, 463-471.
Dadda,M. 2005. Social aggregation and lateralised response to social stimuli in
tadpoles (Bufo bufo): Influence of developmental stage. Laterality 10, 345-352.
Sovrano,V.A., Dadda,M. & Bisazza,A. 2005. Lateralized fish perform better than
nonlateralized fish in spatial reorientation tasks. Behavioural Brain Research 163,
122-127.
Bisazza,A., Dadda,M. & Cantalupo,C. 2005. Further evidence for mirror-reversed
laterality in lines of fish selected for leftward or rightward turning when facing a
predator model. Behavioural Brain Research 156, 165-171.
Dadda,M., Sovrano,V.A. & Bisazza,A. 2003. Temporal pattern of social aggregation
in tadpoles and its influence on the measurement of lateralised response to social
stimuli. Physiology & Behavior 78, 337-341.