Born knowing: (Record no. 4359)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780262045933
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 591.512
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100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Vallortigara, Giorgio
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Born knowing:
Remainder of title imprinting and the origins of knowledge
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. MIT Press
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Cambridge
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2021
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xi, 180 p.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price type code USD
Price amount 24.95
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Table of Content:<br/><br/>1. What Do Chickens Have to Do with Science?<br/>2. Cambridge, Early 1980s<br/>3. Mothers are not Rolling Stones<br/>4. Baby Chicks and Baby Humans<br/>5. Self-Propelling is Living<br/>6. In the Right Way<br/>7. Upright and Upside DownWhat Fun!<br/>8. Memories of Mother, Left and Right<br/>9. Innate Guides for Learning<br/>10. To Flee or To Freeze<br/>11. Tufted Chickens<br/>12. A Taste for Moderate Exoticism<br/>13. Everything is Not Yet in Its Place<br/>14. Faces in the Clouds<br/>15. A Brain for Animacy<br/>16. Sensitive Periods<br/>17. Very Interesting. But What Is It For?<br/>18. In Ovo<br/>19. The Sound of Neurons<br/>20. Illusion and Reality<br/>21. Completing Partly Occluded Objects<br/>22. Light and Shadow<br/>23. Taking Space<br/>24. What a Chick Would Do Toward Metaphysics<br/>25. Rules and Regularities<br/>26. Arithmetic? Arithmetic is for the Birds<br/>27. ... And Geometry Too<br/>28. The Mental Line of Numbers<br/>29. Closing Time
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. An expert on the brain argues that the mind is not a blank slate and that much early behaviour is biologically predisposed rather than learned. Why do newborns show a preference for a face (or something that resembles a face) over a nonface-like object? Why do baby chicks prefer a moving object to an inanimate one? Neither baby human nor baby chick has had time to learn to like faces or movement. In Born Knowing, neuroscientist Giorgio Vallortigara argues that the mind is not a blank slate. Early behaviour is biologically predisposed rather than learned, and this instinctive or innate behaviour, Vallortigara says, is key to understanding the origins of knowledge. Drawing on research carried out in his own laboratory over several decades, Vallortigara explores what the imprinting process in young chicks, paralleled by the cognitive feats of human newborns, reveals about minds at the onset of life. He explains that a preference for faces or representations of something face-like and animate objects--predispositions he calls "life detectors"--Streamlines learning, allowing minds to avoid a confusing multiplicity of objects in the environment, and he considers the possibility that autism spectrum disorders might be linked to a deficit in the preference for the animate. He also demonstrates that animals do not need language to think and that addition and subtraction can be performed without numbers. The origin of knowledge, Vallortigara argues, is the wisdom that humans and animals possess as basic brain equipment, the product of natural history rather than individual development.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Animal intelligence
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Public Policy & General Management IB/IN/779 24-11-2022 Indian Institute of Management LRC Indian Institute of Management LRC General Stacks 12/15/2022 International Book Centre 1356.67   591.512 VAL 004017 12/15/2022 1 2063.37 12/15/2022 Book

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