Is heart rate an indicator of imprinted preferences and affect

Different tests for “imprinted” preferences may produce discordant results. To resolve this enigma, measurements of changes in heart rate were recorded in the presence of the familiar imprinted and an unfamiliar object. The character of the changes in cardiac activity varied in an apparently haphazard fashion, nor did constraints on locomotion alter this picture. It is not known whether these considerable and seemingly spontaneous changes in cardiac activity are common to the young of all birds, or unique to ducklings. The underlying causes and their biological significance may pose a problem of greater importance than the presumed (and still unproven) relation between imprinting, heart rate, and affect

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• Imprinting and Early Learning

  D Y Graham, D Graham et al.•British Journal of Educational…•1965

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