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Public Library of Science, PLoS ONE, 4(6), p. e18802, 2011
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018802
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The Evolution of Social Orienting: Evidence from Chicks (Gallus gallus) and Human Newborns
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L.,
Giorgio Vallortigara,
G.,
Mark Henry Johnson,
M. H.
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Abstract
Converging evidence from different species indicates that some newborn vertebrates, including humans, have visual predispositions to attend to the head region of animate creatures. It has been claimed that newborn preferences for faces are domain-relevant and similar in different species. One of the most common criticisms of the work supporting domain-relevant face biases in human newborns is that in most studies they already have several hours of visual experience when tested. This issue can be addressed by testing newly hatched face-naïve chicks (Gallus gallus) whose preferences can be assessed prior to any other visual experience with faces.