ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2022
Spontaneous preference for unpredictability in the temporal contingencies between agents' motion in naive domestic chicks.
Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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- I see moving people: Expectations drive detection of biological motion in noisy point-light displays.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Article
- Editorial: Processing of face and other animacy cues in the brain.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Innate sensitivity to face-to-face biological motion.iScience · 2024Article
- Seeing life in the teeming world: animacy perception in arthropods.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Review
- The domestic chick as an animal model of autism spectrum disorder: building adaptive social perceptions through prenatally formed predispositions.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Review
- I like the way you move: how animate motion affects visual attention in early human infancy.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Review
- Perception of animate motion in dogs.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Review
- Sensitivity to the role of an animated agent from observed interactions in newborn chicks (Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- Identifying critical kinematic features of animate motion and contribution to animacy perception.iScience · 2023Article
- Naïve chicks do not prefer objects with stable body orientation, though they may prefer behavioural variability.Animal cognition · 2023Article
- Life is in motion (through a chick's eye).Animal cognition · 2023Review
- Perceiving animacy from kinematics: visual specification of life-likeness in simple geometric patterns.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
- Spontaneous preference for unpredictability in the temporal contingencies between agents' motion in naive domestic chicks.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
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Abstract
The ability to recognize animate agents based on their motion has been investigated in humans and animals alike. When the movements of multiple objects are interdependent, humans perceive the presence of social interactions and goal-directed behaviours. Here, we investigated how visually naive domestic chicks respond to agents whose motion was reciprocally contingent in space and time (i.e. the time and direction of motion of one object can be predicted from the time and direction of motion of another object). We presented a 'social aggregation' stimulus, in which three smaller discs repeatedly converged towards a bigger disc, moving in a manner resembling a mother hen and chicks (versus a control stimulus lacking such interactions). Remarkably, chicks preferred stimuli in which the timing of the motion of one object could not be predicted by that of other objects. This is the first demonstration of a sensitivity to the temporal relationships between the motion of different objects in naive animals, a trait that could be at the basis of the development of the perception of social interaction and goal-directed behaviours.
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