A comparative approach to emotional crying in humans (Homo sapiens)-Tears as paedomorphic signals [0.03%]
人类情感性哭泣的比较研究——眼泪作为一种幼态持续特征信号的功能理论
Benjamin Griffin,Zanna Clay,Robert Hyder-Wilson et al.
Benjamin Griffin et al.
Emotional crying refers to the uniquely human characteristic of producing visible tears in response to emotionally salient experiences. Originating in infancy as a biologically prepared distress signal, emotional crying persists across the ...
Too many eyes on the same prize? Why searching together but dividing attention shapes more effective collective foraging [0.03%]
太多双眼睛盯着同一个奖品吗?为什么一起搜索但分散注意力会塑造更有效的集体觅食行为
Michael J Beran
Michael J Beran
Comments on an article by K. Ighalo & N. Miller (see record 2027-04636-001). In the context of numerous foragers in an environment, the story becomes more complicated. Now, many foragers searching for one cryptic prey type means less of tho...
Alexander Weiss,Michaela Masilkova,Marieke C Gartner et al.
Alexander Weiss et al.
Gibbons (family Hylobatidae) are small apes comprising lar gibbons (Hylobates spp.), crested gibbons (Nomascus spp.), siamangs (Symphalangus syndactus), and hoolocks (Hoolock spp.). These four genera are closely related to one another and t...
Cognitive differences between two Zebra species (Equus burchelli chapmanni and E. grevyi)-The possible role of fission-fusion dynamics [0.03%]
两种斑马物种的认知差异( Equus burchelli chapmanni 和 E. grevyi)- 分合动态的可能作用
Alina Schaffer,Alvaro L Caicoya,Iker Loidi et al.
Alina Schaffer et al.
In animals, high fission-fusion dynamics (FFD) characterize groups in which individuals frequently split into subgroups of different size and composition. Through evolution, this might have led to an increase in specific cognitive skills th...
Salt exposure disrupts memory retrieval in habituation and conditioned place preference in planaria (Dugesia japonica) [0.03%]
盐暴露破坏了日本水生涡虫习惯化和条件位置偏好的记忆提取过程
Toru Tazumi,Jose Prados,Gonzalo P Urcelay
Toru Tazumi
This study examined whether saline acts as an aversive stimulus for planarians and how it influences learning and memory. Using saline as an unconditioned stimulus, we first tested conditioned place avoidance. Saline did not support conditi...
Evidence of the conjunction fallacy in Rats (Rattus norvegicus) following two-lever choice training [0.03%]
基于大鼠(Rattus norvegicus)n-back任务的二杠杆选择训练中的合取谬误证据
Kayley M Ozimac,Valeria V Gonzalez,Aaron P Blaisdell
Kayley M Ozimac
The conjunction fallacy, a well-known cognitive bias, occurs when individuals erroneously judge the conjunction of 2 events as more probable than either event occurring independently (Tversky & Kahneman, 1983). Although this fallacy has bee...
Alice Auersperg
Alice Auersperg
The case of Rakus, an orangutan observed treating a wound with medicinal leaves, exemplifies clear, observable animal self-medication and highlights a bias toward studying physically visible behaviors. In contrast, psychoactive self-medicat...
The SNARC effect is not a unitary phenomenon: Individual variation in space-magnitude associations across domains [0.03%]
SNARC效应不是一个单一的现象:跨领域空间-数量关联的个体差异
Olga F Lazareva,Regina Paxton Gazes
Olga F Lazareva
English speakers respond more quickly to small numbers with a leftward response and large numbers with a rightward response, a phenomenon known as the spatial-numerical association of response codes (SNARC) effect. Two prevailing theories t...
Risk sensitivity in female beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) [0.03%]
雌白鲸(Delphinapterus leucas)的风险敏感性
Matthew H Babb,Katherine L Flammer,Christina Spilker et al.
Matthew H Babb et al.
The world is full of uncertainty, often requiring decisions that involve unknown outcomes. Responses to uncertainty, or risk, have been widely studied, revealing both species-level and individual differences. Risk studies have focused on a ...
Is it weird in here and does comparative cognition suffer from main-character syndrome? [0.03%]
这里怪异吗?比较认知研究中的主角情结
Michael J Beran
Michael J Beran
Comparative cognition can make itself more relevant to those who care largely (or entirely) about humans by making itself less WEIRD and less focused on humans. That feels nonintuitive, I know, but psychology has long wanted to find itself ...