Stability and individual variability of social attachment in imprinting
dc.contributor.author | Lemaire, B | |
dc.contributor.author | Rucco, D | |
dc.contributor.author | Josserand, M | |
dc.contributor.author | Vallortigara, G | |
dc.contributor.author | Versace, E | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-06-09T09:14:02Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-03-25 | |
dc.date.available | 2021-06-09T09:14:02Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-04 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Lemaire, Bastien S. et al. "Stability And Individual Variability Of Social Attachment In Imprinting". Scientific Reports, vol 11, no. 1, 2021. Springer Science And Business Media LLC, doi:10.1038/s41598-021-86989-3. Accessed 9 June 2021. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 2045-2322 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/72418 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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 to learn the characteristics of conspicuous visual stimuli and display affiliative response to them. Although longer exposures to an object produce stronger preferences for it afterwards, this relation is not linear. Sometimes, chicks even prefer to approach novel rather than familiar objects. To date, little is known about how filial preferences develop across time. This study aimed to investigate filial preferences for familiar and novel imprinting objects over time. After hatching, chicks were individually placed in an arena where stimuli were displayed on two opposite screens. Using an automated setup, the duration of exposure and the type of stimuli were manipulated while the time spent at the imprinting stimulus was monitored across 6 days. We showed that prolonged exposure (3 days vs 1 day) to a stimulus produced robust filial imprinting preferences. Interestingly, with a shorter exposure (1 day), animals re-evaluated their filial preferences in functions of their spontaneous preferences and past experiences. Our study suggests that predispositions influence learning when the imprinting memories are not fully consolidated, driving animal preferences toward more predisposed stimuli. | en_US |
dc.publisher | Nature Publishing Group | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | Scientific Reports | |
dc.rights | This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. | |
dc.rights | Attribution 3.0 United States | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/ | * |
dc.title | Stability and individual variability of social attachment in imprinting | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.rights.holder | © 2021, The Author(s) | |
pubs.notes | Not known | en_US |
pubs.publication-status | Accepted | en_US |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2021-03-25 | |
rioxxterms.funder | Default funder | en_US |
rioxxterms.identifier.project | Default project | en_US |
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