To what extent are filial responses the outcome of spontaneous or acquired preferences?
The case of domestic chicks illustrates the connection between predisposed and learned …

In this paper, we report on the ongoing work in our laboratories on the effect of lateralization
produced by light exposure in the egg on social cognition in the domestic chick (Gallus …

Here, we review evidence of unlearned predispositions to orient toward visual and auditory
cues associated with the presence of animate creatures. We concentrate on studies on …

Faces are special for newly hatched chicks: evidence for inborn domain‐specific
mechanisms underlying spontaneous preferences for face‐like stimuli - Rosa‐Salva - 2010 - …

Background Converging evidence from different species indicates that some newborn
vertebrates, including humans, have visual predispositions to attend to the head region of animate …

Some key behavioural traits of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) have been hypothesized to
be due to impairments in the early activation of subcortical orienting mechanisms, which in …

The septum is an evolutionarily well-conserved part of the limbic system. It is known to be
involved in many aspects of social behavior and is considered a key node of the social …

… et al. 2000; Vallortigara et al. 2005; Vallortigara and Regolin 2006), being also able to
recognize the configuration of features characterizing appropriate social companions (Rosa Salva …

We analysed research that makes use of precocial species as animal models to describe
the interaction of predisposed mechanisms and environmental factors in early learning, in …

Animacy perception arises in human adults from motion cues implying an internal energy
source to the moving object. The internal energy of the object is often represented by a change …