Sentences with phrase «in animal cognition»

In another 2013 study published in Animal Cognition journal, a group of dogs was able to pick out the faces of other dogs, regardless of the breed, among the faces of humans and other animals.
Research published in Animal Cognition tells us our feline friends are able to understand the principle of cause and effect and some elements of physics.
The study published in Animal Cognition observed 20 cats for eight months, responding to a series of audio recordings of five people calling each cat's name.
The study, published by Springer in the Animal Cognition journal, suggests that the reason for cats» unresponsive behaviour might be traced back to the early domestication of the species, contrasting this with the relationship of humans to dogs.
The cognitive animal: Empirical and theoretical perspectives in animal cognition (pp. 285 - 292).
«I got the impression that it was being very careful to check all the boxes for hot topics and controversial topics in animal cognition,» said Alex Jordan, a collective behaviorial scientist at the Max Planck Institute in Konstanz, Germany (who nonetheless supports the idea).
Although both elephants employed the strategy, one was clearly better at it, modulating the duration of her blows to bring objects where she wanted them, the researchers reported 5 November in Animal Cognition.
In the first study, published in February in Animal Cognition, the researchers found bees capable of learning to solve increasingly complex problems.
In a recent study conducted at the University of Vienna in Austria and published online in Animal Cognition, four dogs were shown simultaneously photographs depicting either landscapes or canines and trained (read: rewarded with a yummy treat when successful) to select the pix of pups.
One question in an animal cognition is whether animals other than humans have the ability to recognise themselves.
Within a few days, the high - and - dry rats were regularly aiding their soaking companions by opening the door, the team reports online today in Animal Cognition.
Daniel Povinelli, director of the Cognitive Evolution Center at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, objects to the entire trend in animal cognition studies.
[Gabriela - Alina Sauciuc, et al., Affective forecasting in an orangutan: predicting the hedonic outcome of novel juice mixes, in Animal Cognition]

Not exact matches

Animal cognition is a touchy subject, but for the most part they seem to live in an eternal now, their lives almost certainly determined by what is going on around them in the present moment.
Roquentin's confrontation with the void in Sartre's Nausea («Everything is gratuitous»), the defeatism of Mr. Compson in Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury («All men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown away the sawdust flowing from what wound in what side that not for me died not»), and Nietzsche's ironic and mournful declamations (such as his remark that the moment «clever animals invented cognition... was the haughtiest, most mendacious moment in the history of this world, but yet only a moment.
But at the same time, rightly enough, it would be insisted that Whitehead's immediate experience can not be conflated with Bradley's; for in Whitehead, immediate experience operates as foundational only within the limited area of animal or human cognition and can not, as in Bradley's idealist metaphysic, be identified with the substratum itself.
The Tiny Love projector has a beautiful design and features Suzi the whale and a fun sea lights show that depicts animals swimming in and out of sight, encouraging the development of baby's cognition.
The Tiny Love projector has beautiful design and features Cody the whale and a fun sea lights show that depicts animals swimming in and out of sight, encouraging the development of baby's cognition.
But scientists know little about how smell and cognition are linked in animals that rely heavily on smell — such as dogs, elephants, and rats.
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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.
Their research in Springer's journal Animal Cognition is the first to use the Aesop's Fable paradigm to assess if mammalian carnivores understand the principles of water displacement.
The findings were published in the journal Animal Cognition.
Her review is published in Springer's journal Animal Cognition.
Rats usually fear strange open spaces, but having a companion by their side makes the rodents more intrepid, scientists report in the current issue of Animal Cognition.
Keeler's work in reinforcement learning and animal cognition led him to an idea for a business venture he hopes will revolutionize the pet market.
Dr Perry said: «Our results should provide new avenues for understanding the neural basis of cognition in all animals, including humans.»
Two captive elephants blast air through their trunks to grasp hard - to - reach food, suggests an initial study published today in Springer's journal Animal Cognition.
By implication, a vast world of animal cognition exists out there, not just in African Grey parrots but in other creatures, too.
The paper is «a big step forward» because running such tests in the wild «is exceptionally challenging,» says Alex Thornton, an animal cognition researcher at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom.
The latest research, published in the academic journal Animal Cognition, involved 12 bearded dragons which had not previously been involved in cognition expCognition, involved 12 bearded dragons which had not previously been involved in cognition expcognition experiments.
Studies of individual animals in the wild suggest that higher cognition has evolutionary trade - offs.
«It's an innovative way of getting at the problem» of what animals know about their environments, says Karen McComb, an expert in mammal communication and cognition at the University of Sussex in Brighton, England.
Théraulaz is a research director at the Research Center on Animal Cognition of CNRS at Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse, France.
In the study, published today in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, all of the squirrels showed clear improvement over successive attempts with the box, becoming more efficient in adjusting their behaviour to adapt to the tasIn the study, published today in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, all of the squirrels showed clear improvement over successive attempts with the box, becoming more efficient in adjusting their behaviour to adapt to the tasin the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, all of the squirrels showed clear improvement over successive attempts with the box, becoming more efficient in adjusting their behaviour to adapt to the tasin adjusting their behaviour to adapt to the task.
The findings offer needed information in several arenas, Buckner said, including evidence that ravens could serve as animal models in research involving social cognition.
Animal cognition researcher Sarah Marshall - Pescini and her colleagues at the University of Milan believe that dogs do indeed engage in interspecies snooping.
Ross studies chimp cognition at his zoo using a touchscreen that the animals can interact with whenever they feel like, and he says he doesn't see why similar experiments couldn't be conducted in sanctuaries.
IN THE field of animal cognition there are few bigger names than Marc Hauser.
Marino, whose own work indicated that dolphins were capable of self - awareness and other types of advanced cognition, felt that keeping these social, intelligent animals in marine parks did not justify what could be learned from them.
The animals lack a layer of neurons considered essential to information processing, and many parts of their brains — especially the frontal lobe, the site of higher cognition in people — looked underdeveloped.
Hare, who directs Duke's Hominoid Psychology Research Group and the Duke Canine Cognition Center, studies the relationship between social behavior and cognition inCognition Center, studies the relationship between social behavior and cognition incognition in animals.
And I suspect it's because when we do cognition experiments with animals, so we try to measure their cognitive abilities; we put an animal individually in a cage or some kind of an apparatus and we ask it questions and we see how well it performs.
Scientists seeking to understand the neural mechanisms underlying social cognition and emotion have drawn on a variety of methods, including studies of patients with neurological damage and single - cell recording of brain activity in nonhuman animals.
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.
Audrey Dussutour of the Center for Animal Cognition Research in Toulouse, France, and her colleagues set up an experiment to investigate how overcrowding would affect the creatures behavior.
«What we've found is that we humans have the capability to orient ourselves along highways of odors and crisscross landscapes using only our sense of smell,» said study lead author Lucia Jacobs, a UC Berkeley psychology professor who studies evolution and cognition in animals and humans.
The suggestion that some of a spider's «thoughts» happen in its web fits into a small but growing trend in discussions of animal cognition.
They argued in a review paper, published in the journal Animal Cognition, that a spider's web is at least an adjustable part of its sensory apparatus, and at most an extension of the spider's cognitive system.
Perspectives: the looking time experimental paradigm in studies of animal visual perception and cognition.
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