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. Lateralized Brain Functions: Methods in Human and Non-human Species. Springer Nature, Humana Press. . 978-1-4939-6725-4. NeuroMethods Series, vol. 122.
Rogers, L.J. and Kaplan, G. Comparative Vertebrate Cognition: Are Primates Superior to Nonprimates? Kluwer Academic/Plenum, New York..
Kaplan, G. and Rogers, L.J. Gene Worship: Moving Beyond the Nature/Nurture Debate Over Genes, Brain, and Gender. OtherPress, New York..
Rogers, L.J. and Andrew, R.J. 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. The Orang-utans. Allen and Unwin, St Leonards.. Also published by Perseus/Hellix Press, N.Y., 2000..
Rogers, L.J. and Kaplan, G. Song, Roars and Rituals: Communication in Birds, Mammals and Other Animals. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA..
Bradshaw, J.L. and Rogers, L.J. The Evolution of Lateral Asymmetries, Language, Tool Use and Intellect, Academic Press..
Selected Journal articles
Rogers, Lesley J.; Zucca, Paolo; Vallortigara, Giorgio. "Advantages of having a lateralized brain". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences. 271. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2004.0200. ISSN 0962-8452. PMC 1810119..
Deng, Chao; Rogers, Lesley J. "Prehatching visual experience and lateralization in the visual Wulst of the chick". Behavioural Brain Research. 134 : 375–385. doi:10.1016/S0166-432800050-5. ISSN 0166-4328.
Rogers, L. J., Rosenblatt, Jay S.; Beer, Colin; Busnel, Marie-Claire; Slater, Peter J. B., "Lateralization of Learning in Chicks", Advances in the Study of Behavior, Academic Press, 16, pp. 147–189, doi:10.1016/s0065-345460190-4
Selected Book Chapters
Rogers, L.J, Koboroff, A., Kaplan, G. Lateral asymmetry of brain and behaviour in the zebra finch, Taeniopygia guttata. In Rogers, L.J. Left Versus Right Asymmetries of Brain and Behaviour, MDPI, Basel, pp. 31–46.
Rogers, L.J. Manual bias, behaviour, and cognition in common marmosets and other primates. In Forrester, G., Hopkins, W.D, Hudry, K. and Lindell, A.K. Cerebral Lateralization and Cognition: Evolutionary and Developmental Investigations of Behavioral Biases. Progress in Brain Research: PBR Volume 238: Elsevier, Chapter 4, pp. 91–113.
Rogers, L.J. Eye and ear preferences. In Rogers, L.J. and Vallortigara, G. Lateralized Brain Functions: Methods in Human and Non-human Species. Humana Press, Springer NeuroMethods Series, vol. 122, pp. 79–102..
Rogers, L.J. Sex differences are not “hard-wired”. In J.A. Fisher 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.
Rogers, L.J. Lateralization in its many forms, and its evolution and development. In W.D. Hopkins The Evolution of Hemispheric Specialization in Primates, Special Topics in Primatology, Vol. 5, Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 23–56.
Rogers, L.J. and Kaplan, G. All animals are not equal: the interface between scientific knowledge and the legislation for animal rights? In C.R. Sunstein and M. C. Nussbaum Animal Rights: Law and Policy. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 175–202.
Rogers, L.J. 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, Academic Press, San Diego, pp. 107–162..
Rogers, L.J. Evolution of side biases: Motor versus sensory lateralization. In M.K. Manas, M.B. Bulman-Fleming and G. Tiwari Side-Bias: A Neuropsychological Perspective. Kluwer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, pp. 3–40.
Rogers, L.J. Development of Lateralisation. In: R.J. Andrew, Neural and Behavioural Plasticity: The Use of the Domestic Chicken as a Model, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 507–535.