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Science 31 March 1967:
Vol. 155. no. 3770, pp. 1692 - 1693
DOI: 10.1126/science.155.3770.1692
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Prenatal Auditory Imprinting in Chickens

J. Brown Grier 1, S. Allen Counter 2, and William M. Shearer 2

1 Department of Psychology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb
2 Department of Speech, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb

A batch of eggs was exposed to a patterned sound continuously from day 12 to day 18 of incubation, while a control group was hatched in the quiet. In a postnatal test all chicks tended to creep toward a stationary sound source, but the experimental group showed a preference for the sound heard during incubation. In a second test the experimental chicks followed a moving model longer when it emitted the familiar sound than when it emitted a novel sound or no sound at all.


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