Cognitive scientists, social psychologists, computer scientists, neuroscientists, ethologists
and many others have all wondered how brains detect and interpret the motion of living …

Equipped with an early social predisposition immediately post-birth, humans typically form
associations with mothers and other family members through exposure learning, canalized …

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 …

An expert on the brain argues that the mind is not a blank slate and that much early behavior
is biologically predisposed rather than learned. Why do newborns show a preference for a …

The ability to recognize animate agents based on their motion has been investigated in
humans and animals alike. When the movements of multiple objects are interdependent …

Humans spontaneously match information coming from different senses, in what we call
crossmodal associations. For instance, high-pitched sounds are preferentially associated …

To study how predisposed preferences shape the formation of social attachment through
imprinting, newly hatched domestic chicks (Gallus gallus domesticus) were simultaneously …

Among a variety of entities in their environment, what do humans consider alive or animate
and how does this attribution of animacy promote development of more abstract levels of …

For inexperienced brains, some stimuli are more attractive than others. Human neonates
and newly hatched chicks preferentially orient towards face-like stimuli, biological motion …

Filial imprinting has become a model for understanding memory, learning and social
behaviour in neonate animals. This mechanism allows the youngs of precocial bird species …