Kaleidoscience: Conversations on Cognitive Science
S3 #48 What happens in the brain of your cat? Brain-to-brain with Dr. Sevim Isparta and Prof. Nadja Freund.
April 30, 202657 min · 8,559 words
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The study on cat sleeping position that we talked about: The study on cats and problem solving abilities that was
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65 percentage of the cats prefer to sleep on their left side.
“when they are more lateralized, they have like the individuals who show stronger lateralization were more successful for opening and reaching the foot.”
“when they use their left visual field, because they are sleeping on the left, and can you imagine them when they open their eyes, they can use directly their left visual field. It means they can react to the environment faster.”
“the right hemisphere is more specialized for the threat processing and threat detection, and for the unusual things in general.”
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