ArticleBiology letters2023
A spontaneous gravity prior: newborn chicks prefer stimuli that move against gravity.
Article in Biology letters, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- Neural correlates of innate preference for upward motion.iScience · 2026Article
- Assessing preferences for adult versus juvenile features in young animals: Newly hatched chicks spontaneously approach red and large stimuli.Learning & behavior · 2025Article
- What is Balance? A Vital Mechano-Regulation Paradigm.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2025Article
- Alleviating isolation stress in chickens: The benefits of home pen playback and mirrors.PloS one · 2025Article
- Understanding biological motion through the lens of animate motion processing.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
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- Perception of animate motion in dogs.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
- Identifying critical kinematic features of animate motion and contribution to animacy perception.iScience · 2023Article
- A spontaneous gravity prior: newborn chicks prefer stimuli that move against gravity.Biology letters · 2023Article
- Parental behavior and newborn attachment in birds: life history traits and endocrine responses.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
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Abstract
At the beginning of life, inexperienced animals use evolutionary-given preferences (predispositions) to decide what stimuli to attend and approach. Stimuli that contain cues of animacy, such as face-like stimuli, biological motion and changes in speed, are particularly attractive across vertebrate taxa. A strong cue of animacy is upward movement against terrestrial gravity, because only animate objects consistently move upward. To test whether upward movement is spontaneously considered attractive already at birth, we tested the early preferences of dark-hatched chicks (
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