Further, indirect evidence suggests that visual predispositions in the chick are mediated by retino-tectal ("sub-cortical") routes.
Converging evidence from different species indicates that some newborn vertebrates, including humans, have visual predispositions to attend to the head region of animate creatures.
Evidence from several different species has led to the proposal that some newborn vertebrates, including humans, have visual predispositions to attend to the head regions and motion pattern of conspecifics or of animate creatures in general [1] [8].
We suggest that the Pareidolia test may be able to identify patients with subclinical hallucinations or a predisposition to visual hallucinations.
Lab-based taxonomy, she argues, yields counterintuitive results, whereas visual classifications logically express our predisposition to order the world in informal, sensible ways.
This suggests that following another's gaze into distant space may be a predisposition to respond to the visual behavior of others, which after being shaped by learning may allow for gaze following around the barrier later in development ('low-level model' [18]; 'orienting-response model' [24]).
Still, 10 out of 11 subjects reported that the bars reminded them of human eye blinks, probably reflecting the predisposition to perceive faces in various visual patterns.
Visual impairment need not be a factor differentiating predispositions towards tolerating imbalances in the body.
For example, while several different localised forebrain regions impair stages of visual learning and consolidation, none of the lesions to date have effected the predisposition to orient to conspecifics [34].
Because the FVB/Ant strain is pigmented and devoid of the genetic predisposition to retinal degeneration of the FVB/N strain, these mice show clear visual evoked potential in the presence of normal eye histology and improved performance in the Morris water maze test (Errijgers et al. 2007).
