But I would say that imprinting is a specific instance of a more general process (which I called correlation guided proxy matching). The oldbrain has a simple initial mom detector circuit, which during normal chick learning phase is just good enough to locate and connect to the learned newbrain mom detector circuit, which then replaces/supplants the oldbrain equivalent. The proxy matching needn’t really effect the newbrain directly.
Thanks! - that summary seems about right.
But I would say that imprinting is a specific instance of a more general process (which I called correlation guided proxy matching). The oldbrain has a simple initial mom detector circuit, which during normal chick learning phase is just good enough to locate and connect to the learned newbrain mom detector circuit, which then replaces/supplants the oldbrain equivalent. The proxy matching needn’t really effect the newbrain directly.