Born Knowing: Imprinting and the Origins of Knowledge

by Giorgio Vallortigara

Book Overview

An expert on the brain argues that the mind is not a blank slate and that much early behavior 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262045931
• ISBN13: 9780262045933
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.1"