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Faces Are Special for Newly Hatched Chicks: Evidence for Inborn Domain-Specific Mechanisms Underlying Spontaneous Preferences for Face-Like Stimuli
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Rosa-Salva, Orsola; Regolin, Lucia; Vallortigara, Giorgio – Developmental Science, 2010
It is currently being debated whether human newborns' preference for faces is due to an unlearned, domain-specific and configural representation of the appearance of a face, or to general mechanisms, such as an up-down bias (favouring top-heavy stimuli, which have more elements in their upper part). Here we show that 2-day-old domestic chicks,…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Neonates, Visual Perception, Animals