Sentences with phrase «animal cognition there»

IN THE field of animal cognition there are few bigger names than Marc Hauser.

Not exact matches

«The gorillas could encourage their playmates when they were losing interest, or self - handicap if there was a danger of winning the game,» says Byrne (Animal Cognition, DOI: 10.1007 / s10071 -009-0308-y).

But there is hope: exercise has been shown to stimulate neurogenesis in healthy animals and in people, so Monje thinks there is a good chance that being active would help improve cognition in cancer survivors, too.

By implication, a vast world of animal cognition exists out there, not just in African Grey parrots but in other creatures, too.

When the dolphins teamed up, they made more vocalisations than they did while opening the canister on their own or when there was either no canister present or no interaction with the canister (Animal Cognition, doi.org/bfct).

Writing in the June 2017 issue of Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Nunez takes on the conventional wisdom in the field right now — a widely accepted view in cognitive neuroscience, child psychology and animal cognition that there is a biologically evolved capacity for number and arithmetic that we share with other species.

There's more to these findings than just lofty philosophical quandaries, though: If ravens really do possess a level of social cognition comparable to humans and other large primates, the birds might serve as better animal models to study this kind of behavior in the lab — which could help scientists understand why some humans are better at this kind of inference than others, and why some individuals can't manage it at all.

There was a study published in the journal Animal Cognition that reveals the science behind some of the most popular dog toys.

«Exploring a variety of topics in animal welfare and cognition, there are particular themes to which Zazie often returns: the importance of enrichment for our pets; the use of reward - based training for dogs (and cats); the need to make visits to the vet less stressful; and the psychology of the human - animal bond.»