Roots of a social brain: Developmental models of emerging animacy-detection mechanisms

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 50, Issue , 2015, Pages 150-168

  Rosa Salva, O ^a   Mayer, U ^a   Vallortigara, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Animacy; Biological motion; Domestic chick; Gallus gallus; Innate; Optic tectum; Self propulsion; Social predispositions; Subcortical structures; Superior colliculus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHICK; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; HEREDITY; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; PRETECTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULVINAR; REVIEW; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; ANIMAL; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; DRIVE; GALLIFORMES; HUMAN; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BRAIN; CUES; GALLIFORMES; HUMANS; INSTINCT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84924023783     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: 18737528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2014.12.015     Document Type: Review

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