News tagged with distracted humans
Bound by attention: Bringing rats and humans together
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 18, 2008 |
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When picking through a basket of fruit, it doesn't seem very difficult to recognize a green pear from a green apple. This is easy, thanks to "feature binding"— a process by which our brain combines all of the specific features ...
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A new take on why social cues confuse babies and dogs in a classic hiding game
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 24, 2009 |
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A study by developmental scientists at the University of Iowa and Indiana University challenges the conclusions of two recent studies on how babies and dogs respond to certain social cues. The new findings, published in this ...
Tracking feline memories on the move
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Aug 20, 2007 |
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When a cat steps over an obstacle with its front legs, how do its hind legs know what to do? A new study in the August 21st issue of Current Biology, a publication of Cell Press, reveals that it is the foreleg stepping moveme ...
The deciding factor: Empathy distinguishes modern humans from their primate ancestors
Nov 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- What, exactly, distinguishes humans from apes? It’s certainly more than just our genes, renowned anthropologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy told a Harvard audience recently (Nov. 18).
Scientists find emotion-like behaviors, regulated by dopamine, in fruit flies
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 25, 2009 |
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Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have uncovered evidence of a primitive emotion-like behavior in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. Their findings, which may be relevant to the relationship betwee ...
System to detect objects in food products
Jul 22, 2005 |
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Field tests are to begin this summer on a system designed to detect plastic and other foreign objects in food products.
Chocolate, water reduce pain response to heat
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 13, 2009 |
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People often eat food to feel better, but researchers have found that eating chocolate or drinking water can blunt pain, reducing a rat's response to a hot stimulus. This natural form of pain relief may help ...
MU psychologists demonstrate simplicity of working memory
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Apr 23, 2008 |
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A mind is a terrible thing to waste, but humans may have even less to work with than previously thought. University of Missouri researchers found that the average person can keep just three or four things in their “working ...
Study finds people who multitask often bad at it
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Aug 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Attention, multitaskers (if you can pay attention, that is): Your brain may be in trouble.
Why we outlive our ape ancestors
Dec 02, 2009 |
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In spite of their genetic similarity to humans, chimpanzees and great apes have maximum lifespans that rarely exceed 50 years. The difference, explains USC Davis School of Gerontology Professor Caleb Finch, is that as humans ...
Why newborn babies can't walk
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The first steps of an infant is a real milestone in the development of all mammals including humans, but little is known about why some animals can walk soon after birth, while others need ...
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