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Newborn chicks can parse objects from backgrounds immediately upon seeing their first object, demonstrating innate visual perception abilities. Motion cues are crucial for developing this object parsing skill, similar to human infants.

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  • Object recognition was consistent across familiar and novel backgrounds.
  • The development of object parsing was found to require motion cues.

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    • Motion cues are essential for scaffolding object perception from early learning stages.
    • Innate brain architectures with an object-based inductive bias enable immediate object perception without extensive experience.