handedness in dinosaurs/"birds"

[StephanPickering@cs.com]

The fundamental work on lateralization of the brain in living  dinosaurs (what fading crayons in cyberia like to term "birds") is being conducted by:  Irene Maxine Pepperberg (1981 to date), working with Psittacus erithacus; Lesley  Rogers (who uses Gallus gallus, and other taxa, including mammals, in her paradigms) in collaboration with Chao Deng and Gisela Kaplan. The literature of parental care levels re: living avialian theropods is immense, ongoing, but the work of D.W. Mock is pivotal.  So, too, is the work of Graham Martin and Gadi Katzir re: visual fields of avialian theropods -- feeding, rearing of hatchlings, foraging/hunting, etc., are intertwined with surviving.  Gart Zweers has done interesting work on how dinosaurs actually drink/eat (viz. swallowing).  Remarkable work on ultraviolet vision in the !
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nosaurs one sees in heavily canopied rainforests is, also, available for perusal. Of course, if one prefers to ignore post-K/T dinosaurs, pretend they are not Dinosauria, and shirk one's  responsibilities as paleontologists to extant ecomorphologies of dinosaurs, then the above suggestions for reading may be a mental challenge. My own feeling is that Dinosauria = Aves, the latter term to be re-defined as...what?