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Honeybees solve a multi-comparison ranking task by probability matching
Honeybees forage on diverse flowers which vary in the amount and type of rewards they offer, and bees are challenged with maximizing the resou...
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How ‘visual’ is the visual cortex? The interactions between the visual cortex and other sensory, motivational and motor systems as enabling factors for visual perception
The definition of the visual cortex is primarily based on the evidence that lesions of this area impair visual perception. However, this does ...
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How animals collaborate: Underlying proximate mechanisms
Abstract Collaboration or social interactions in which two or more individuals coordinate their behavior to produce outcomes from which both i...
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How bumblebees manage conflicting information seen on arrival and departure from flowers
Bees are flexible and adaptive learners, capable of learning stimuli seen on arrival and at departure from flowers where they have fed. This gives bees the potential to learn all information associated with a feeding event, but it also presents the challe... |
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How causal analysis can reveal autonomy in models of biological systems
Standard techniques for studying biological systems largely focus on their dynamical or, more recently, their informational properties, usuall...
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How chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) share the spoils with collaborators and bystanders
Chimpanzees hunt cooperatively in the wild, but the factors influencing food sharing after the hunt are not well understood. In an experimenta...
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How cognitive and environmental constraints influence the reliability of simulated animats in groups
Evolving in groups can either enhance or reduce an individual’s task performance. Still, we know little about the factors underlying group per...
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How College Students Understand Their Self-Control Development: A Qualitative Analysis
AbstractRecent research has shown the importance of the positive benefits of high-levels of self-control for both individuals and society. Yet...
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How do people perceive listeners?
Listening is essential in shaping social interactions, relationships and communication. While listening research has generated significant insights on how speakers benefit from good listening, one fundamental question has been largely overlooked: how do people perceive listeners? |
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How honey bees make fast and accurate decisions
Honey bee ecology demands they make both rapid and accurate assessments of which flowers are most likely to offer them nectar or pollen. To un...
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How Students’ Expectations Shape Their Quest for Purpose During College
This article presents the findings of a 75-participant phenomenological study that examined the relationship between students’ expectations of...
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How UK Scientists Legitimize Religion and Science Through Boundary Work
Abstract Research on the religious lives of scientists focuses mainly on U.S. scientists. Drawing on 115 interviews with UK biologists and phy...
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Project: Promoting Altruism in Children
Human infants can override possessive tendencies to share valued items with others
Possessiveness toward objects and sharing are competing tendencies that influence dyadic and group interactions within the primate lineage. A ...
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Humpback Whales Blow Poloidal Vortex Bubble Rings
Humpback whales ( Megaptera novaeangliae ) have long been known to generate bubbles by physically striking the air–water interface or releasing air through the blowholes or mouth. Melville was the first to note this propensity by penning “humpbacks churned the water … making more gay foam and whitewater than any of them.” In the Norwegian Sea, a whaleship observed a humpback whale... |
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Hunter–gatherer foraging networks promote information transmission
Central-place foraging (CPF), where foragers return to a central location (or home), is a key feature of hunter-gatherer social organization. ...
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Hyper-Achievement, Perfection, and College Student Resilience
Over the past decade, there has been considerable attention given to college students’ experience of pressure to pursue perfection through hyp...
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Identifying Childhood Correlates of Adult Purpose and Meaning Across 22 Countries (Global Flourishing Study)
How might we cultivate a life imbued with purpose and meaning? Though common experience indicates purpose and meaning are inherently important, empirical evidence confirms they are also linked to improved health/wellbeing. However, childhood antecedents of purpose and meaning in adulthood are understudied... |
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Project: Growing AI within a Culture: Moral Intelligence from Human-AI Interactions across the World
Identifying with all humanity predicts cooperative health behaviors and helpful responding during COVID-19
In the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, public health experts have produced guidelines to limit the spread of the coronavirus, but individuals do no...
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Implementing FAIR Workflows D2.2 Metadata Template Development for Cognitive Neuroscience Research
This document outlines the background, setup, tools used, the process for metadata definition, template building, testing, and community feedback. |
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Implementing FAIR Workflows D2.4 Persistent Identifiers in Action: System Integrations Supporting FAIR Workflows
The report collates experiences from project partners within the FAIR Workflows project. |
