Sentences with phrase «of animal cognition»

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.

Unlike the authors of many other popular accounts of animal cognition, Wynne argues that «animals have neither the «theory - of - mind» capabilities that humans have... nor the capacity for higher - level reasoning.»

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

Shaw and her colleagues briefly captured and banded 20 adult birds, which they trained to carry out six different tests to measure various skills thought to be linked to specific types of animal cognition (defined as the ability to acquire, process, and act on information about the environment).

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

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.

Not exact matches

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.

«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).

«Our results using an animal model suggest that a maternal high - fat diet during pregnancy and lactation could have significant and lasting effects on the brain, behavior and cognition of rat pups,» said Dr. Tamashiro.

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.

[Gabriela - Alina Sauciuc, et al., Affective forecasting in an orangutan: predicting the hedonic outcome of novel juice mixes, in Animal Cognition]

And a growing body of evidence does threaten what we thought we knew about 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.

Dr Perry said: «Our results should provide new avenues for understanding the neural basis of cognition in all animals, including humans.»

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 idea of bees «speaking» with chemicals raised questions about animal language and cognition that are hotly debated to this day.

Hauser is well - known for his work on animal cognition, and more recently for his work on the evolutionary origins of morality.

«Speculation about animals» mental experiences happens to be the main quest of this book,» Safina writes, as he skillfully weaves together research on animal behavior and cognition with tales of his journey across the globe to observe how different animals live.

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.

What was once considered a sharp line separating humans from all other animals is becoming a blurry gray area, with various animals possessing certain parts of the skill set considered to be advanced cognition.

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 task.

As well as enhancing our understanding of social cognition and comparative psychology, the findings should ultimately provide important information for veterinary and animal welfare practices.»

Animal cognition researcher Sarah Marshall - Pescini and her colleagues at the University of Milan believe that dogs do indeed engage in interspecies snooping.

Müller warns that when animal cognition researchers put together their study groups, they may be missing this kind of effect if they aren't including equal numbers of male and female animals.

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.

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.

In the first study, published in February in Animal Cognition, the researchers found bees capable of learning to solve increasingly complex problems.

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.

Alexandra Horowitz, an animal cognition researcher at Barnard College, filmed hundreds of hours of dogs at play.

But a new opportunity may be opening up for studies of chimpanzee behavior and cognition: A first - of - its - kind partnership between a sanctuary and a research center, announced this month, is designed to bolster the scientific output of facilities that have until now primarily focused on the long - term care of their animals.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The available data suggest that reversal of scopolamine - induced cognitive impairment is a viable model for predicting pharmacodynamic signals of cognition enhancing compounds in animals [91].

The SdP consists of several platforms dedicated to the analysis of primate's motion (the origin of bipedalism), to cognition and behaviour, to comparative psychology, as well as in a biomedical platform (surgery, radiology, echography, biological analyses, animal housing).

An article by two Brazilian scientists in the April issue of the journal Animal Cognition points the way to the future for how dogs can communicate with people about such things as being hungry (Rossi, A. P. and C. Ades, 2008, A dog at the keyboard: using arbitrary signs to communicate requests, Animal Cognition 11: 329 - 338).

This includes proposals that address mechanisms of memory or cognition at the synaptic, cellular, molecular, genetic or behavioral level in animals, including humans.

Boeckle said that the determinations advance «our understanding of complex cognition, as we did not have evidence in any (non-human) animal that future planning is flexibly used across behaviors.»

Martin Giurfa is the director and founder of the Research Center on Animal Cognition, which depends on the University of Toulouse and the French research council CNRS.