Filial imprinting is the process through which early social preferences become restricted to a
particular object or class of objects. Evidence is presented showing that filial preferences are …

Despite impressive demonstrations of human infants' intersensory capabilities over the past
several decades, there has been little focus on the contributions of prenatal and postnatal …

In recent decades, Susan Oyama and her colleagues in the burgeoning field of
developmental systems theory have rejected the determinism inherent in the nature/nurture …

The notion that phenotypic traits, including behavior, can be predetermined has slowly given
way in biology and psychology over the last several decades to the view that all traits are the …

All organisms inherit parents' genes, but many also inherit parents, peers, and the places
they inhabit as well. We suggest the term ontogenetic niche to signify the ecological and …

This book reviews research on the development of brain and behaviour in the chick. It
begins by outlining the developmental stages of the chick embryo, including the effects of …

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 …

Human infants are altricial, born relatively helpless and dependent on parental care for an
extended period of time. This protracted time to maturity is typically regarded as a necessary …

Chicks, Gallus gallus domesticus, tested monocularly on day 3 after hatching recognize
familiar versus unfamiliar conspecifics and choose to approach one or other when they use …

Despite several decades of criticism, dichotomous thinking about behavioral development
(the view that the behavioral phenotype can be partitioned into inherited and acquired …