McBride T C, Lickliter R
Department of Psychology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg 24061-0436.
J Comp Psychol. 1993 Sep;107(3):320-7. doi: 10.1037/0735-7036.107.3.320.
We examined the role of visual and social experience with siblings in the development of bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus) chicks' preference for species-specific maternal visual cues. Chicks were reared in 1 of 4 conditions: group, isolation, partial isolation, and heterospecific group. They were tested in simultaneous choice tests with species-typical and species-atypical audiovisual stimuli. Results revealed that only subjects that were reared in a group with same-aged conspecifics preferred the visual features of a bobwhite hen model. Subjects in the other 3 conditions did not exhibit species-specific visual preference. The findings suggest that visual experience and direct social interaction with siblings facilitate the development of bobwhite chicks' species-specific responsiveness to static maternal visual cues and illustrate the important influence of experience with conspecifics in the development of early perceptual preferences.
我们研究了与兄弟姐妹的视觉和社交体验在北美鹑（Colinus virginianus）雏鸡对物种特异性母体视觉线索偏好发展中的作用。雏鸡在以下4种条件之一中饲养：群居、隔离、部分隔离和异种群居。它们在同时进行的选择测试中接受物种典型和物种非典型视听刺激的测试。结果显示，只有在与同龄同种个体群居环境中饲养的个体才偏好北美鹑母鸡模型的视觉特征。其他3种条件下的个体未表现出物种特异性视觉偏好。这些发现表明，与兄弟姐妹的视觉体验和直接社交互动有助于北美鹑雏鸡对静态母体视觉线索形成物种特异性反应，并说明了同种个体体验在早期感知偏好发展中的重要影响。
