{"id":560780,"date":"2023-03-08T03:00:03","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T00:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/newborn-chicks-are-attracted-to-objects-that-move-upwards-shows-study\/"},"modified":"2023-03-08T03:00:03","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T00:00:03","slug":"newborn-chicks-are-attracted-to-objects-that-move-upwards-shows-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/newborn-chicks-are-attracted-to-objects-that-move-upwards-shows-study\/","title":{"rendered":"#Newborn chicks are attracted to objects that move upwards, shows study"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2570bec9072\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2570bec9072\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/newborn-chicks-are-attracted-to-objects-that-move-upwards-shows-study\/#%E2%80%9CNewborn_chicks_are_attracted_to_objects_that_move_upwards_shows_study%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Newborn chicks are attracted to objects that move upwards, shows study&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CNewborn_chicks_are_attracted_to_objects_that_move_upwards_shows_study%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Newborn chicks are attracted to objects that move upwards, shows study&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-gallery lightGallery\">\n<div data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2023\/chicks.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/hires\/2023\/chicks.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Credit: Pixabay\/CC0 Public Domain\">\n<figure class=\"article-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2023\/chicks.jpg\" alt=\"chicks\" title=\"Credit: Pixabay\/CC0 Public Domain\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-darken text-low-up text-truncate-js text-truncate mt-3\">\n                Credit: Pixabay\/CC0 Public Domain<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>From birth, animals can use their spontaneous preferences (predispositions that are not learned) to decide which stimuli to attend and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roach. Previous research has shown how infants and newborn chicks, with no previous experience with animals, are spontaneously attracted by the movement of living organisms. Now, new findings demonstrate how the movement against gravity can be particularly good in attracting our attention, since only living beings can consistently move upward against gravity. This research is an important contribution to our understanding of inner cognitive models of behavior and activity in early stages of life.<\/p>\n<section class=\"article-banner first-banner ads-336x280\"><!-- \/4988204\/Phys_Story_InText_Box --><br \/>\n      <\/section>\n<p>The research is published in the journal <i>Biology Letters<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Researcher Dr. Elisabetta Versace, Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Fellow and Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary, said, &#8220;We find people and other animals extremely attractive objects to pay attention to; as soon as we see the walking of a dog, or the climbing of a lizard, our attention is all on them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has been found that even infants and newborn chicks, with no previous experience with animals, are spontaneously attracted by the movement of living organisms. We showed how a very simple cue such as movement upward is able to trigger our attention.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The research set out to test whether upward movement against gravity is attractive at birth before any previous visual experience in the world.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers tested the spontaneous preferences of newly hatched chicks, at their first experience with visual stimuli, using artificial intelligence to automatically track the movement of animals. They used similar stimuli to those used to test human expectations on gravity in the Ferr\u00e8 laboratory.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"mb-4\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Newborn chicks are attracted to objects that move upwards\"\/><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch\/?v=v_WSR0S4O0s\"\/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Newborn chicks are attracted to objects that move upwards\"\/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2023-03-07T14:23:36-05:00\"\/><meta itemprop=\"embedUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v_WSR0S4O0s\"\/><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/v_WSR0S4O0s\/maxresdefault.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n             <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A spontaneous gravity prior: newborn chicks prefer stimuli that move against gravity\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v_WSR0S4O0s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>They found that when given a choice between a circle moving upward or downward on computer screens, newly hatched chicks spontaneously approached upward moving stimuli. Prior to these experiments, it was thought that the configuration of multiple &#8220;joints&#8221; of a moving animal triggered attention to living beings. The experimental findings showed that a single moving dot can give the interesting feature of a living object.<\/p>\n<p>The findings demonstrate the predisposed knowledge that vertebrate animals are born with, and that can be used to test for spontaneous abilities that are already available at birth. This is a crucial step to understand how sensitivity to simple, low-level features can help shape our activities from the initial stages of life. This is also important to understand the inner cognitive models that guide our behavior on Earth, under terrestrial gravity, and in non-terrestrial gravity.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-main__more p-4\">\n                                                                                        <strong>More information:<\/strong><br \/>\n                                                Larry Bliss et al, A spontaneous gravity prior: newborn chicks prefer stimuli that move against gravity, <i>Biology Letters<\/i> (2023).  <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-doi=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1098\/rsbl.2022.0502\">DOI: 10.1098\/rsbl.2022.0502<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"d-inline-block text-medium mt-4\">\n<p>                                                    Provided by<br \/>\n                                                                                                            Queen Mary, University of London<br \/>\n                                                                                                                <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"icon_open\" href=\"http:\/\/www.qmul.ac.uk\/\"><br \/>\n                                                            <svg><use href=\"https:\/\/phys.b-cdn.net\/tmpl\/v6\/img\/svg\/sprite.svg#icon_open\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\"\/><\/svg><\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>                                        <!-- print only --><\/p>\n<div class=\"d-none d-print-block\">\n<p>                                                <strong>Citation<\/strong>:<br \/>\n                                                Newborn chicks are attracted to objects that move upwards, shows study (2023, March 7)<br \/>\n                                                retrieved 7 March 2023<br \/>\n                                                from https:\/\/phys.org\/<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>\/2023-03-newborn-chicks.html<\/p>\n<p>                                             This document is subject to copyright. 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