Chicks (Gallus gallus) learned to run from a starting box to a target located at the end of a runway. At test, colourful and bright distractors were placed just outside the starting box. Dark incubated chicks (maintained in darkness from fertilization to hatching) stopped significantly more often, assessing more the left-side distractor than chicks hatched after late (for 42 h during the last three days before hatching) or early (for 42 h after fertilization) exposure to light. The results show that early embryonic light stimulation can modulate this particular behavioural lateralization comparably to the late application of it, though via a different route.

Early- and late-light embryonic stimulation modulates similarly chicks' ability to filter out distractors / Chiandetti, Cinzia; Lemaire, Bastien; Versace, Elisabetta; Vallortigara, Giorgio. - In: SYMMETRY. - ISSN 2073-8994. - ELETTRONICO. - 9:6(2017), p. 84. [10.3390/sym9060084]

Early- and late-light embryonic stimulation modulates similarly chicks' ability to filter out distractors

Chiandetti, Cinzia;Lemaire, Bastien;Versace, Elisabetta;Vallortigara, Giorgio
2017-01-01

Abstract

Chicks (Gallus gallus) learned to run from a starting box to a target located at the end of a runway. At test, colourful and bright distractors were placed just outside the starting box. Dark incubated chicks (maintained in darkness from fertilization to hatching) stopped significantly more often, assessing more the left-side distractor than chicks hatched after late (for 42 h during the last three days before hatching) or early (for 42 h after fertilization) exposure to light. The results show that early embryonic light stimulation can modulate this particular behavioural lateralization comparably to the late application of it, though via a different route.
2017
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Chiandetti, Cinzia; Lemaire, Bastien; Versace, Elisabetta; Vallortigara, Giorgio
Early- and late-light embryonic stimulation modulates similarly chicks' ability to filter out distractors / Chiandetti, Cinzia; Lemaire, Bastien; Versace, Elisabetta; Vallortigara, Giorgio. - In: SYMMETRY. - ISSN 2073-8994. - ELETTRONICO. - 9:6(2017), p. 84. [10.3390/sym9060084]
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