Spontaneous Learning of Visual Structures in Domestic Chicks

Spontaneous Learning of Visual Structures in Domestic Chicks

Effective communication crucially depends on the ability to produce and recognize structured signals, as apparent in language and birdsong. Although it is not clear to what extent similar syntactic-like abilities can be identified in other animals, recently we reported that domestic chicks can learn...

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Main Authors: Orsola Rosa-Salva, József Fiser, Elisabetta Versace, Carola Dolci, Sarah Chehaimi, Chiara Santolin, Giorgio Vallortigara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-08-01
Series:Animals
Subjects:
domestic chicks
Gallus gallus
imprinting
implicit learning
statistical learning
sequence learning
spatial/visual configurations
positional information
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/8/8/135

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