title: Preliminary evidence of a neurophysiological basis for individual discrimination in filial imprinting.
abstract: Filial imprinting involves a predisposition for biologically important stimuli and a learning process directing preferences towards a particular stimulus. Learning underlies discrimination between imprinted and unfamiliar individuals and depends upon the IMM (intermediate and medial mesopallium). Here, IMM neurons responded differentially to familiar and unfamiliar conspecifics following socialization and the neurophysiological effects of social experience differed between hemispheres. Such findings may provide a neurophysiological basis for individual discrimination in imprinting.
authors.affiliation: Sub-department of Animal Behaviour, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. stephentown42@gmail.com
authors.forename: Stephen Michael
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Town
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological / Q000502:physiology*; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology; D004567:Electrodes, Implanted; D007173:Imprinting, Psychological / Q000502:physiology*; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology; D010775:Photic Stimulation / Q000379:methods; D021641:Recognition, Psychology / Q000502:physiology*; D012919:Social Behavior