Imprinting is the learning process through which the social preferences of animals of certain species become restricted to a particular object or class of objects. A distinction is made between filial and sexual imprinting. Filial imprinting is...

Imprinting refers to the chemical modification of the DNA in some genes that affects how or whether those genes are expressed. One particular kind of DNA imprinting found in mammals is known as parental genomic imprinting, in which the sex of the...

Imprinting describes a process in which newborn animals rapidly develop a strong attachment to a particular individual, often the mother. It is associated particularly with precocious bird species (species that mature early) such as chickens, ducks,...

Learned attachment. Imprinting is particularly widespread in birds. Filial imprinting determines the preferred target for the following response of young birds. Sexual imprinting determines mate preference in birds. Filial imprinting can be reliably...

Imprinting is a term used in ethology (study of animal behavior) to describe the development of a stable behavioral pattern during a brief period of juvenile life (known as the "sensitive phase") in a social species. It occurs as a result of a timely...

A special social attachment that is created between the young and usually the significant other members of the older generation who care for...

Imprinting may mean: Genomic imprinting, a mechanism of regulating gene expression Imprinting (psychology), in psychology and ethology Molecular imprinting, in polymer chemistry Metabolic imprinting, the phenomenon by which the metabolism of the...