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Instinct is an inborn tendency that makes animals perform certain complex behaviors automatically, without having to learn them first. These instinctive actions matter because they allow organisms to respond quickly and correctly to important situations, like how sea turtle hatchlings instinctively know to head toward the ocean without being taught.
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Research
3,506 papers- Overwriting an instinct: Visual cortex instructs learning to suppress fear responses.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2025Mederos S, Blakely P, Vissers N et al.DOI: 10.1126/science.adr2247
- Hunger and instinct.ReviewThe Journal of nervous and mental disease · 1969Bruch HDOI: 10.1097/00005053-196908000-00002
- Development evolving: the origins and meanings of instinct.ReviewWiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science · 2017Blumberg MSDOI: 10.1002/wcs.1371
- Innateness and the instinct to learn.ReviewAnais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias · 2004Marler PDOI: 10.1590/s0001-37652004000200002
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- The attributes of instinct.ReviewBehaviour · 1966Konishi MDOI: 10.1163/156853966x00209
- Technical reasoning: neither cognitive instinct nor cognitive gadget.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2023Osiurak F, Federico G, Claidière NDOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2022.12.016
- The life instinct.The International journal of psycho-analysis · 2010Abel-Hirsch NDOI: 10.1111/j.1745-8315.2010.00304.x
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L’instinct est la totalité ou partie héréditaire et innée des comportements, tendances comportementales et mécanismes physiologiques sous-jacents des animaux. Il est présent sous différentes formes chez toutes les espèces animales. Son étude intéresse nombre de sciences : biologie animale (éthologie et phylogénie), psychologie, psychiatrie, anthropologie et philosophie. Chez l'humain, il constitue la nature qui s'oppose traditionnellement au concept de culture.
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