Characterizing the information content of a newly hatched chick's first visual object representation.

Newly hatched chicks solve the visual binding problem.

For an organism to perceive coherent and unified objects, its visual system must bind color and shape features into integrated color-shape representations in memory. However, the origins of this ability have not yet been established. To examine whether newborns can build an integrated representation of the first object they see, I raised newly hatched chicks (Gallus gallus) in controlled-rearin...

Reading the first period (1627-1631) self-portraits by Rembrandt based on the concept of Das Ding in Lacan Theory

 Rembrandt, in his early self-portraits, clearly forbids the audience from seeing. The distinguishing feature of these works not in the clearly displayed sections, but in the glorious representation of the lost information. In other words, Rembrandt uses visual principles and qualities in order not to represent himself accurately. This prompted the researcher to read psychoanalytically the self...

Face recognition in newly hatched chicks at the onset of vision.

How does face recognition emerge in the newborn brain? To address this question, we used an automated controlled-rearing method with a newborn animal model: the domestic chick (Gallus gallus). This automated method allowed us to examine chicks' face recognition abilities at the onset of both face experience and object experience. In the first week of life, newly hatched chicks were raised in co...

Comparison of the serum Protein fractions of the Newly Hatched chick with those of adult Birds using Starch-gel Electrophoresis

A chicken model for studying the emergence of invariant object recognition

"Invariant object recognition" refers to the ability to recognize objects across variation in their appearance on the retina. This ability is central to visual perception, yet its developmental origins are poorly understood. Traditionally, nonhuman primates, rats, and pigeons have been the most commonly used animal models for studying invariant object recognition. Although these animals have ma...