The evolution of social orienting: Evidence from chicks (gallus gallus) and human newborns

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Salva, Orsola ^a   Farroni, Teresa ^b,c   Regolin, Lucia ^b   Vallortigara, Giorgio ^a   Johnson, Mark Henry ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHICK; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NEUROIMAGING; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; FACE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

GALLUS GALLUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79955421329     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018802     Document Type: Article

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