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Although most pictorial cues
may be learned, responsiveness
to the cue of cast shadow
appears to be innate, at least in
chickens. Wayne Hershberger
at Northern Illinois University
trained two groups of chicks,
one group to peck at mounds
rather than at depressions, and
the other group the reverse, by
rewarding them with food
when they made the correct
choice. The mounds and
depressions were devoid of any
shadows; thus, the correct
perception of their depth
depended entirely upon
binocular or motion cues.
Following this learning, the
chicks were presented with
pictures of mounds or
depressions in which shadow
was the only cue. If a chick had
learned to peck at mounds, it
should peck at the photograph
it perceived as a moundΓÇöΓÇô
presumably the photograph
with shadow at the bottom,
which would look like a mound
to us. If neither photograph
looked more like a mound than
the other, the chick should
peck randomly or not peck at
the pictures at all.