Giorgio Vallortigara, Claudia Losi

Born Knowing: Imprinting and the Origins of Knowledge

Illustrator: Losi, Claudia

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Produktbeschreibung

"Based on his decades of experience working with newborn chicks and other species, Vallortigara gives us a clear and accessible account of behaviors that are considered to be innate or instinctive"--

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• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 206mm x 138mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 332g
• ISBN-13: 9780262045933
• ISBN-10: 0262045931
• Artikelnr.: 61648257

Autorenporträt

Giorgio Vallortigara; illustrated by Claudia Losi

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1 What do Chickens have to do with Science?
2 Cambridge, Early 1980s
3 Mothers are not Rolling Stones
4 Baby Chicks and Baby Humans
5 Self-Propelling is Living
6 In the Right Way
7 Upright and Upside Down--What Fun!
8 Memories of Mother, Left and Right
9 Innate Guides for Learning
10 To Flee or Freeze
11 Tufted Chickens 
12 A Taste for Moderate Exoticism
13 Everything is not yet in Its Place
14 Faces in the Clouds
15 A Brain for Animacy
16 Sensitive Periods
17 Very Interesting, But What is it For?
18 In Ovo
19 The Sound of Neurons
20 Illusion and Reality
21 Completing Partly Occluded Objects
22 Light and Shadow
23 Taking Space
24 What a Chick Would Do Toward Metaphysics
25 Rules and Regularities
26 Arithmetic? Arithmetic is for the Birds
27 ...and Geometry Too
28 The Mental Line of Numbers
29 Closing Time
Notes
Index