Mom's shadow: Structure-from-motion in newly hatched chicks as revealed by an imprinting procedure

Animal Cognition

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 389-400

  Mascalzoni, Elena ^a   Regolin, Lucia ^a   Vallortigara, Giorgio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Domestic chicks; Imprinting; Motion perception; Structure from motion; Visual system

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; DEPTH PERCEPTION; LEARNING; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NEWBORN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; VISION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CHICKENS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FORM PERCEPTION; IMPRINTING (PSYCHOLOGY); MOTION PERCEPTION; PERCEPTUAL CLOSURE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 67349284736     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-008-0198-4     Document Type: Article

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