ArticleAnimal cognition2020
Combined predisposed preferences for colour and biological motion make robust development of social attachment through imprinting.
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- Fetal blockade of nicotinic acetylcholine transmission causes autism-like impairment of biological motion preference in the neonatal chick.Cerebral cortex communications · 2022Article
- Steps towards a computational ethology: an automatized, interactive setup to investigate filial imprinting and biological predispositions.Biological cybernetics · 2021Review
- Stability and individual variability of social attachment in imprinting.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Spontaneous Visual Preference for Face-Like Stimuli Is Impaired in Newly-Hatched Domestic Chicks Exposed to Valproic Acid During Embryogenesis.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2021Article
- Resurgence of an Inborn Attraction for Animate Objects via Thyroid Hormone TFrontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2021Article
- Statistical learning in domestic chicks is modulated by strain and sex.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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Abstract
To study how predisposed preferences shape the formation of social attachment through imprinting, newly hatched domestic chicks (Gallus gallus domesticus) were simultaneously exposed to two animations composed of comparable light points in different colours (red and yellow), one for a walking motion and another for a linear motion. When a walking animation in red was combined with a linear one in yellow, chicks formed a learned preference for the former that represented biological motion (BM). When the motion-colour association was swapped, chicks failed to form a preference for a walking in yellow, indicating a bias to a specific association of motion and colour. Accordingly, experiments using realistic walking chicken videos revealed a preference for a red video over a yellow one, when the whole body or the head was coloured. On the other hand, when the BM preference had been pre-induced using an artefact moving rigidly (non-BM), a clear preference for a yellow walking animation emerged after training by the swapped association. Even if the first-seen moving object was a nonbiological artefact such as the toy, the visual experience would induce a predisposed BM preference, making chicks selectively memorize the object with natural features. Imprinting causes a rapid inflow of thyroid hormone in the telencephalon leading to the induction of the BM preference, which would make the robust formation of social attachment selectively to the BM-associated object such as the mother hen.
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