Visually inexperienced chicks exhibit spontaneous preference for biological motion patterns.
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 sequenc...
| Format: | Article |
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| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2005-07-01
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| Series: | PLoS Biology |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0030208 |