caa a22 4500 445353767 CHVBK 20180317142853.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00221-011-2769-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00221-011-2769-x Town Stephen Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, CB3 0DG, Madingley, Cambridge, UK aut The effects of social rearing on preferences formed during filial imprinting and their neural correlates [Elektronische Daten] [Stephen Town] Filial imprinting was originally proposed to be an irreversible process by which a young animal forms a preference for an object experienced early in life. The present study examined the effects of experience after imprinting on the stability of preferences of domestic chicks (Gallus gallus domesticus) for an imprinting stimulus by rearing imprinted chicks socially or in isolation. Chicks reared socially or in isolation retained preferences for the imprinting stimulus; however, social rearing weakened the strength of preferences. The responses of neurons within the intermediate and medial mesopallium—a forebrain region necessary for imprinting were also recorded in socially reared and isolated chicks when presented with the visual component of the imprinting stimulus and novel object. Consistent with existing findings, neurons recorded from isolated chicks responded more strongly to the imprinting stimulus than novel object. However, social rearing diminished the disparity between responses to stimuli such that neurons recorded from socially reared chicks responded similarly to the imprinting stimulus and novel object. These findings suggest that social rearing may impair the retention of preferences formed during imprinting through mechanisms involving the IMM. Springer-Verlag, 2011 Imprinting nationallicence Learning nationallicence Memory nationallicence Neurophysiology nationallicence IMM nationallicence Domestic chick nationallicence Experimental Brain Research Springer-Verlag 212/4(2011-08-01), 575-581 0014-4819 212:4<575 2011 212 221 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-011-2769-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-011-2769-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Town Stephen Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, CB3 0DG, Madingley, Cambridge, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Experimental Brain Research Springer-Verlag 212/4(2011-08-01), 575-581 0014-4819 212:4<575 2011 212 221 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer