Deprivation of direct adult contact during development affects social representation in a songbird.
Dev Psychobiol
; 63(8): e22207, 2021 12.
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ABSTRACT
Social cognition involves a wide array of skills that are built largely through interactions with conspecifics and therefore depend upon early social experience. Motivation for social stimuli is a key feature of social behavior and an operant conditioning task showed that isolated wild-caught adult starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) are highly motivated to access pictures of other starlings. Here, we show that hand-raised adult starlings maintained in groups of peers throughout development but without any contact with adult models were not or only poorly motivated to access pictures of conspecifics. Moreover, they did not prefer pictures of starlings to pictures of landscapes, unlike birds wild-caught as adults. These results raise questions about the role of social experience during development, particularly with adult models, in the development of social motivation and of social representation in general.
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MEDLINE
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Estorninos
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Animals
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En
Revista:
Dev Psychobiol
Año:
2021
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Article
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Francia