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Imprinting and critical periods in early development
2006-12-01
Abstract excerpt
The review addresses the fundamental process of ‘imprinting’. In his classical studies on newly hatched goslings Konrad Lorenz analysed the development of social binding and established the term ‘imprinting’ to describe this process. One of his major ideas was that imprinting occurs in ‘critical periods’, which are limited and severely restricted to the animal's very early life. For some time past, the term ‘impri...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 0f92e730-ddf0-5fee-b6b4-5e9785412243
- DOI
- 10.1079/wps2006117