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PLOS BIOLOGY
卷 3, 期 7, 页码 1312-1316出版社
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030208
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When only a small number of points of light attached to the torso and limbs of a moving organism are visible, the animation correctly conveys the animal's activity. Here we report that newly hatched chicks, reared and hatched in darkness, at their first exposure to point-light animation sequences, exhibit a spontaneous preference to approach biological motion patterns. Intriguingly, this predisposition is not specific for the motion of a hen, but extends to the pattern of motion of other vertebrates, even to that of a potential predator such as a cat. The predisposition seems to reflect the existence of a mechanism in the brain aimed at orienting the young animal towards objects that move semi-rigidly ( as vertebrate animals do), thus facilitating learning, i.e., through imprinting, about their more specific features of motion.
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