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But, it was not until the early 1900s that any scientific studies were done of the phenomenon. Austrian naturalist Konrad Lorenz became the first to codify and establish the science behind the imprinting process. Lorenz found that when young birds came out of their eggs they would become attached to the first moving object they encountered. In most cases in the wild, that would be their mother.
A crucial problem was finding where in the brain the information about the mother (or her substitute imprinting object) is stored. An array of neurobiological techniques has implicated one particular region of the chick forebrain as the site where the neural representation of the imprinting object resides.he biological function of imprinting is probably to enable the animal to recognise close kin. In the natural environment behavioural imprinting reliably results in the formation of a strong social bond between offspring and parent.