Imprinting on time-structured acoustic stimuli in ducklings

Filial imprinting is a dedicated learning process that lacks explicit reinforcement. The phenomenon itself is narrowly heritably canalized, but its content, the representation of the parental object, reflects the circumstances of the newborn. Imprinting has recently been shown to be even more subtle...

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Main Authors: Monteiro, T, Hart, T, Kacelnik, A
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Royal Society 2021