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Giorgio Vallortigara

Professor of Neuroscience, Centre for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento, Italy

Giorgio Vallortigara is professor of neuroscience at the Centre for Mind/Brain Sciences at the University of Trento in Italy. He is the author of Born Knowing (MIT Press, 2021).

Written by Giorgio Vallortigara

A fluffy chick facing a blue screen with scattered white dots.

Knowledge and reason

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Babies and chicks help solve one of psychology’s oldest puzzles

From the beginning of life, both humans and other species can grasp important characteristics of the world around them

by Giorgio Vallortigara