[visionlist] The Twenty-Eighth Kanizsa Lecture - 26 August, 2020

[Trieste Symposium]

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                     THE 28th KANIZSA LECTURE




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Dear colleagues,


This year the Kanizsa Lecture will be delivered by prof. Giorgio
Vallortigara (University of Trento, Italy) on Tuesday 26 August, starting
at 4.00 pm (C.E.T.), at the Auditorium of the Revoltella Museum. The event
will be available with a live-streaming through the YouTube platform of the
University of Trieste ( https://www.youtube.com/user/UniversitaTrieste )


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The 28th Kanizsa Lecture


Of chicks and babies. How to build a social brain.


Giorgio Vallortigara
Animal Brain Cognition Laboratory
University of Trento, Italy

To what extent are filial responses the outcome of spontaneous or acquired
preferences? The case of domestic chicks (Gallus gallus) illustrates the
connection between predisposed and learned knowledge in early social
responses. In the absence of specific experience, chicks prefer to approach
objects that are more similar to natural social partners.
Preferences towards animate stimuli are observed in human neonates as well.
The remarkable consistency between the perceptual cues attended to by
newborn babies and naïve chicks confirms that research on precocial species
can inform and guide human infant research.
This has potentially important biomedical implications, opening new
possibilities for the early detection of subjects at risk for autism
spectrum disorders. We show how the parallel investigation of
predispositions in naïve chicks and human infants, has greatly improved our
understanding of early responses to social stimuli at the behavioural and
neurobiological level.
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