Giorgio Vallortigara
University of Trento (per Routledge)
Giorgio Vallortigara studies cognition from comparative and evolutionary perspectives. Routledge’s author biography for The Twofold Brain, checked on September 17, 2026, identifies him as Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Trento. It also names him as director of the Animal Brain and Cognition Laboratory at its Centre for Mind/Brain Sciences. The biography lists research on spatial navigation, object and number representation, and the evolution of brain asymmetry.
Vallortigara co-authors The Twofold Brain with Lesley J. Rogers. Routledge lists a first edition with copyright 2027 and 116 pages. Its subtitle is Exploring Fundamental Questions about Brain Lateralization. Chapter 9 asks whether the two halves of the brain have separate and independent consciousness. A chapter title cannot establish how the authors answer that question.
Comparative cognition provides questions about how specialized systems contribute to perception and action across species. Its connection to conscious unity requires a further account of how those functions relate to experience. This site’s coverage keeps those questions separate and does not assign Vallortigara a philosophical position from his research field alone.
Known for. Comparative cognition and brain asymmetry, co-author of The Twofold Brain
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