... paradigms. "The field offers growing evidence that some animals have functional parallels to humans' consciousness and to humans ... and his colleagues pioneered the study of metacognition in nonhuman animals, and they have contributed some of the principal results in this area ...
... should come as little surprise, Brannon says. "There are all sorts of reasons why number would be useful for nonhuman animals in the wild. In foraging situations ...
... researchers a way to study this type of memory in a nonhuman model. "It has been argued that retrieval of episodic memories ... in time," he said. "Recent studies with nonhuman animals suggest that animals remember specific episodes ...
... explained. "We need to continue these kinds of tests with nonhuman animals to properly place human behavior in context with nonhuman behavior, and to understand the evolutionary roots of human ...
... Behavioral Ecology, show that the cognitive mechanisms underlying cumulative cultural evolution may be more prevalent in nonhuman animals than currently believed. The findings show ...
... -coated gold nanorods one-up their spherical counterparts, with a single dose completely destroying all tumors in a nonhuman animal model of human cancer ...
... system that possesses complexity, flexibility and control, three of the features of metacognition*. These findings suggest that nonhuman animals may possess some metacognitive abilities, too ...
... brain volume. The extroversion results were not clear, but the data validated the other two hypotheses. "There are lots of nonhuman animal studies that suggest that chronic stress ...
... Boys and grooves to Lady Gaga. Neurobiologists used scientific measurements to find that Snowball is the first nonhuman animal to be documented as dancing to a synchronized beat ...
... of investigation in the field of metacognition is the question of whether nonhuman animals can - like their human counterparts - monitor or self-regulate their own cognitive states and processes ...
... of resistance in the scientific community towards the notion that "nonhuman animals have affective experiences, and that these can and should be studied ... the notion that nonhumans can have affective experiences? Panksepp: I don't think animal lovers ...
Emerging research in animal behavior suggests that nonhuman animals know right from wrong.
Chimpanzees can learn to use tools more efficiently by watching how others use them, new research suggests. The findings help illuminate ways that culture could evolve in nonhuman animals.
... offers the first evidence of source memory in a nonhuman animal. The findings have "fascinating implications," said principal ... events and to distinguish one event or episode from another. Nonhuman animals, by contrast, have been thought to have limited forms ...
