The development of newborn object recognition in fast and slow visual worlds.

ABSTRACT: Object recognition is central to perception and cognition. Yet relatively little is known about the environmental factors that cause invariant object recognition to emerge in the newborn brain. Is this ability a hardwired property of vision? Or does the development of invariant object recognition require experience with a particular kind of visual environment? Here, we used a high-throughput controlled-rearing method to examine whether newborn chicks (Gallus gallus) require visual experience with slowly changing objects to develop invariant object recognition abilities. When newborn chicks were raised with a slowly rotating virtual object, the chicks built invariant object representations that generalized across novel viewpoints and rotation speeds. In contrast, when newborn chicks were ra

SUBMITTER: Wood JN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4855384 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature