Lesley Joy Rogers Explained

Lesley Joy Rogers
Birth Date:	31 July 1943
Birth Place:	Brisbane
Nationality:	Australian
Field:	Neuroscience, animal behaviour, physiology
Work Institutions:	University of New England
Alma Mater:	University of Adelaide Sussex University

Lesley Joy Rogers (born 31 July 1943^[1]) is a neurobiologist and emeritus professor of neuroscience and animal behaviour at the University of New England.^[2]

Academic career and education

Rogers obtained Bachelor of Science with honours at the University of Adelaide in 1964. She worked in various positions at Harvard University, New England Medical Centre Hospital, University of Sussex, and Open University. She obtained her Doctor of Philosophy in 1971 and a Doctor of Science in 1987, both from the University of Sussex.^[3]

In 2000, Rogers was made a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.^[4]

In 2003, she was awarded the Clarke Medal in zoology from the Royal Society of New South Wales,^[5] and also received the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research, the Academic Women's Special Achievement Award and also the Centenary Medal in 2003.^{[2] [6]}

In 2009, Rogers was a member of the Voiceless Scientific Expert Advisory Panel.^[7]

Publications

Professor Rogers has published over 200 journal articles and 14 books predominantly focussing on the brain and development.

Selected books

• Rogers, L.J. and Vallortigara, G. (eds) (2017) Lateralized Brain Functions: Methods in Human and Non-human Species. Springer Nature, Humana Press. . (Print) 978-1-4939-6725-4 (Online). NeuroMethods Series, vol. 122.
• Rogers, Lesley J; Vallortigara, Giorgio; Andrew, Richard J (2013). "Divided Brains: The Biology and Behaviour of Brain Asymmetries". Cambridge University Press . .
• Rogers, L.J. and Kaplan, G. (2004) Comparative Vertebrate Cognition: Are Primates Superior to Nonprimates? Kluwer Academic/Plenum, New York. .
• Kaplan, G. and Rogers, L.J. (2003) Gene Worship: Moving Beyond the Nature/Nurture Debate Over Genes, Brain, and Gender. OtherPress, New York. .
• Rogers, L.J. and Andrew, R.J. (2002) Comparative Vertebrate Lateralization. Cambridge University Press, New York. . Re-issued in 2008 - Hbk and 978-0-521-78700-0 Pbk.
• Kaplan, G. and Rogers, L.J. (1999) The Orang-utans. Allen and Unwin, St Leonards. . Also published by Perseus/Hellix Press, N.Y., 2000. .
• Rogers, L.J. and Kaplan, G. (2000) Song, Roars and Rituals: Communication in Birds, Mammals and Other Animals. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. .
• Rogers, L.J. (1999) Sexing the Brain. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London . Also published by Columbia University Press, New York in 2001 (hardback and paperback 023112011) and by Phoenix Paperback, London, in 2000 .
• Rogers, L.J. (1997) Minds of their Own: Animal Thinking and Awareness. Allen and Unwin, St Leonards . Also published by Westview Press, Colorado, in 1998 .
• Rogers, L.J.  (1995) The Development of Brain and Behaviour in the Chicken, CAB International, Wallingford, UK. .
• Bradshaw, J.L. and Rogers, L.J. (1993) The Evolution of Lateral Asymmetries, Language, Tool Use and Intellect, Academic Press. .

Selected Journal articles

(refereed research papers only)

• Rogers . Lesley J. . Asymmetry of Motor Behavior and Sensory Perception: Which Comes First? . Symmetry . 29 April 2020 . 12 . 5 . 690 . 10.3390/sym12050690 . 2020Symm...12..690R . free .
• Vallortigara . Giorgio . Rogers . Lesley J. . A function for the bicameral mind . Cortex . March 2020 . 124 . 274–285 . 10.1016/j.cortex.2019.11.018 . 32058074 . 209382366 .
• Rogers . Kaplan . Does Functional Lateralization in Birds Have any Implications for Their Welfare? . Symmetry . 13 August 2019 . 11 . 8 . 1043 . 10.3390/sym11081043 . 2019Symm...11.1043R . free .
• Rogers . Lesley . Koboroff . Adam . Kaplan . Gisela . Lateral Asymmetry of Brain and Behaviour in the Zebra Finch, Taeniopygia guttata . Symmetry . 1 December 2018 . 10 . 12 . 679 . 10.3390/sym10120679 . 2018Symm...10..679R . free .
• Rogers . Lesley J. . A Matter of Degree: Strength of Brain Asymmetry and Behaviour . Symmetry . 18 April 2017 . 9 . 4 . 57 . 10.3390/sym9040057 . 2017Symm....9...57R . free . 14144778 .
• Rogers . L. J. . Frasnelli . E. . Versace . E. . Lateralized antennal control of aggression and sex differences in red mason bees, Osmia bicornis . Scientific Reports . 8 July 2016 . 6 . 1 . 29411 . 10.1038/srep29411 . 27388686 . 4937407 . 2016NatSR...629411R .
• Rogers . Lesley . Vallortigara . Giorgio . When and Why Did Brains Break Symmetry? . Symmetry . 2 December 2015 . 7 . 4 . 2181–2194 . 10.3390/sym7042181 . 2015Symm....7.2181R . free .
• Rogers . Lesley J. . Asymmetry of brain and behavior in animals: Its development, function, and human relevance . Genesis . June 2014 . 52 . 6 . 555–571 . 10.1002/dvg.22741 . 24408478 . 41644990 . free .
• Rogers . Lesley J. . Rigosi . Elisa . Frasnelli . Elisa . Vallortigara . Giorgio . A right antenna for social behaviour in honeybees . Scientific Reports . 27 June 2013 . 3 . 1 . 2045 . 10.1038/srep02045 . 23807465 . 3694496 . 2013NatSR...3E2045R .
• Kaplan . Gisela . Rogers . Lesley J. . Stability of referential signalling across time and locations: testing alarm calls of Australian magpies (Gymnorhina tibicen) in urban and rural Australia and in Fiji . PeerJ . 23 July 2013 . 1 . e112 . 10.7717/peerj.112 . 23904991 . 3728765 . free .
• Kaplan . Gisela . Pines . Mathew K. . Rogers . Lesley J. . Stress and stress reduction in common marmosets . Applied Animal Behaviour Science . March 2012 . 137 . 3–4 . 175–182 . 10.1016/j.applanim.2011.04.011 .
• Rogers . Lesley J. . The two hemispheres of the avian brain: their differing roles in perceptual processing and the expression of behavior . Journal of Ornithology . 3 December 2011 . 153 . S1 . 61–74 . 10.1007/s10336-011-0769-z . 2345826 .
• Rogers . Lesley J. . Relevance of brain and behavioural lateralization to animal welfare . Applied Animal Behaviour Science . October 2010 . 127 . 1–2 . 1–11 . 10.1016/j.applanim.2010.06.008 .
• Lippolis . G. . Joss . J.M.P. . Rogers . L.J. . Australian Lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri): A Missing Link in the Evolution of Complementary Side Biases for Predator Avoidance and Prey Capture . Brain, Behavior and Evolution . 2009 . 73 . 4 . 295–303 . 10.1159/000230674 . 19641309 . 6802365 .
• MacNeilage . Peter F. . Rogers . Lesley J. . Vallortigara . Giorgio . Origins of the Left & Right Brain . Scientific American . July 2009 . 301 . 1 . 60–67 . 10.1038/scientificamerican0709-60 . 19555025 . 2009SciAm.301a..60M .
• Rogers . Lesley J . Hand and paw preferences in relation to the lateralized brain . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences . 4 December 2008 . 364 . 1519 . 943–954 . 10.1098/rstb.2008.0225 . 19064357 . 2666076 .
• Rogers . Lesley J. . Vallortigara . Giorgio . Clayton . Nicola Susan . From Antenna to Antenna: Lateral Shift of Olfactory Memory Recall by Honeybees . PLOS ONE . 4 June 2008 . 3 . 6 . e2340 . 10.1371/journal.pone.0002340 . 18523636 . 2394662 . 2008PLoSO...3.2340R . free .
• Rogers . Lesley J. . Development and function of lateralization in the avian brain . Brain Research Bulletin . June 2008 . 76 . 3 . 235–244 . 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2008.02.001 . 18498936 . 26031891 .
• Hook . Michelle A. . Rogers . Lesley J. . Visuospatial reaching preferences of common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus): An assessment of individual biases across a variety of tasks. . Journal of Comparative Psychology . 2008 . 122 . 1 . 41–51 . 10.1037/0735-7036.122.1.41 . 18298280 .
• Vallortigara . Giorgio . Rogers . Lesley J . survival with an asymmetrical brain: advantages and disadvantages of cerebral lateralization . Behavioral and Brain Sciences . 2005 . 28 . 4 . 575–589 . 10.1017/S0140525X05000105 . 16209828 . 11884162 .
• Rogers . Lesley J. . Zucca . Paolo . Vallortigara . Giorgio . Advantages of having a lateralized brain . Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences . 7 December 2004 . 271 . suppl_6 . S420-2 . 10.1098/rsbl.2004.0200 . 15801592 . 1810119 .
• Deng . Chao . Rogers . Lesley J . Prehatching visual experience and lateralization in the visual Wulst of the chick . Behavioural Brain Research . August 2002 . 134 . 1–2 . 375–385 . 10.1016/S0166-4328(02)00050-5 . 12191824 . 25387547 .
• Rogers . Lesley J. . Evolution of Hemispheric Specialization: Advantages and Disadvantages . Brain and Language . June 2000 . 73 . 2 . 236–253 . 10.1006/brln.2000.2305 . 10856176 . 23357779 .
• Vallortigara . G . Rogers . L.J . Bisazza . A . Possible evolutionary origins of cognitive brain lateralization . Brain Research Reviews . August 1999 . 30 . 2 . 164–175 . 10.1016/S0165-0173(99)00012-0 . 10525173 . 14542467 .
• Cameron . R. . Rogers . L. J. . Hand preference of the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus): Problem solving and responses in a novel setting. . Journal of Comparative Psychology . 1999 . 113 . 2 . 149–157 . 10.1037/0735-7036.113.2.149 .
• Rogers . L . Light exposure of the embryo and development of behavioural lateralisation in chicks, I: olfactory responses . Behavioural Brain Research . 1 December 1998 . 97 . 1–2 . 195–200 . 10.1016/S0166-4328(98)00043-6 . 9867244 . 3991886 .
• Rogers . Lesley J. . Light input and the reversal of functional lateralization in the chicken brain . Behavioural Brain Research . May 1990 . 38 . 3 . 211–221 . 10.1016/0166-4328(90)90176-F . 2363841 . 3974928 .
• Book: Rogers . L. J. . Lateralization of Learning in Chicks . 147–189 . 10.1016/S0065-3454(08)60190-4 . Advances in the Study of Behavior . 1986 . 16 . Academic Press . 9780120045167 .
• Rogers . Lesley J. . Light experience and asymmetry of brain function in chickens . Nature . May 1982 . 297 . 5863 . 223–225 . 10.1038/297223a0 . 7200573 . 1982Natur.297..223R . 4349859 .
• Rogers . L.J. . Anson . J.M. . Lateralisation of function in the chicken fore-brain . Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior . May 1979 . 10 . 5 . 679–686 . 10.1016/0091-3057(79)90320-4 . 493285 . 40292573 .
• Rogers . L.J. . Miles . F.A. . Centrifugal control of the avian retina. V. Effects of lesions of the isthmo-optic nucleus on visual behaviour . Brain Research . December 1972 . 48 . 147–156 . 10.1016/0006-8993(72)90175-8 . 4645202 .
• Andrew . R. J. . Rogers . L. J. . Testosterone, Search Behaviour and Persistence . Nature . June 1972 . 237 . 5354 . 343–346 . 10.1038/237343a0 . 4557402 . 1972Natur.237..343A . 4218116 .
• Kaplan . MarshallM. . Rogers . Lesley . Separation of human serum-alkaline-phosphatase isoenzymes by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis . The Lancet . November 1969 . 294 . 7629 . 1029–1031 . 10.1016/s0140-6736(69)90640-0 . 4188230 .

Selected Book Chapters

• Book: Rogers . Lesley J. . Manual bias, behavior, and cognition in common marmosets and other primates . 91–113 . 10.1016/bs.pbr.2018.06.004 . Progress in Brain Research . 2018 . 238 . Elsevier . 30097204 . 9780128146712 .
• Rogers, L.J. (2017) Eye and ear preferences. In Rogers, L.J. and Vallortigara, G. (eds) Lateralized Brain Functions: Methods in Human and Non-human Species. Humana Press, Springer NeuroMethods Series, vol. 122, pp. 79–102. .
• Rogers, L.J. (2011) Sex differences are not “hard-wired”. In J.A. Fisher (ed) Gender and the Science of Difference: Cultural Politics of Contemporary Science and Medicine. Rutgers University Press, New Jersey, pp. 27–42. pbk and 978-0-8135-5047-3hbk.
• Book: Rogers . Lesley J. . Lateralization in its many Forms, and its Evolution and Development . 22–56 . 10.1016/S1936-8526(07)05002-6 . Special Topics in Primatology . 2007 . 5 . Elsevier . 9780123741974 .
• Rogers, L.J. and Kaplan, G. (2004) All animals are not equal: the interface between scientific knowledge and the legislation for animal rights? In C.R. Sunstein and M. C. Nussbaum (eds.) Animal Rights: Law and Policy. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 175–202.
• Rogers, L.J. (2002) Lateralization in vertebrates: Its early evolution, general pattern and development. Advances in the Study of Behavior, Vol. 31, ed. by P.J.B. Slater, J. Rosenblatt, C. Snowdon and T. Roper (eds), Academic Press, San Diego, pp. 107–162. .
• Rogers, L.J. (2000) Evolution of side biases: Motor versus sensory lateralization. In M.K. Manas, M.B. Bulman-Fleming and G. Tiwari (eds) Side-Bias: A Neuropsychological Perspective. Kluwer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, pp. 3–40.
• Rogers, L.J.  Development of Lateralisation.  In: R.J. Andrew (ed.), Neural and Behavioural Plasticity: The Use of the Domestic Chicken as a Model, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 507–535 (1991).

Notes and References

1. Web site: Rogers, Lesley Joy - Biographical entry - Encyclopedia of Australian Science . Eoas.info . 2014-08-14.
2. Web site: lrogers - University of New England . UNE . 2012-03-24 . 2014-08-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131106165818/http://www.une.edu.au/staff-profiles/lrogers . 6 November 2013 . dead .
3. Web site: Rogers, Lesley J. (Lesley Joy) (1943-) - People and organisations - Trove . Trove.nla.gov.au . 2014-08-14.
4. Web site: Post Nominals: DPhil DSc FAA. Professor Lesley Rogers - Australian Academy of Science. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140815084426/http://www.science.org.au/node/41519. 2014-08-15. 2014-08-14. Science.org.au.
5. Web site: Clarke Medal . Royalsoc.org.au . 2014-08-14 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150210225201/http://www.royalsoc.org.au/awards/clarke_medal.htm . 2015-02-10 .
6. Web site: Lesley Rogers – The Conversation . Theconversation.com . 2012-01-09 . 2014-08-14.
7. Web site: Lesley Rogers . Voiceless . 2014-08-14.