Prenatal Experience and Avian Development: Brief Auditory Stimulation Accelerates the Hatching of Japanese Quail
- 26 November 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 194 (4268) , 959-960
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.982054
Abstract
A single 2-hour exposure to auditory stimulation at any point during the final 3 days of incubation accelerates the hatching of Japanese quail. The 3-day sensitive period includes both prenatal and perinatal stages of incubation. So far as is known these results provide the first unequivocal evidence that short-term prenatal sensory stimulation can affect the development of an avian embryo.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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