News tagged with macaque monkeys
Evidence Points to Conscious 'Metacognition' in Some Nonhuman Animals
(PhysOrg.com) -- J. David Smith, Ph.D., a comparative psychologist at the University at Buffalo who has conducted extensive studies in animal cognition, says there is growing evidence that animals share functional ...
Sep 14, 2009 |
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Scientists find explanation for blindsight
(PhysOrg.com) -- The rare phenomenon of blindsight has been known for a long time, but until now has never been understood. People with blindsight are effectively blind through damage to the primary visual ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 25, 2010 |
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For the first time, monkeys recognize themselves in the mirror, indicating self-awareness (w/ Video)
Typically, monkeys don't know what to make of a mirror. They may ignore it or interpret their reflection as another, invading monkey, but they don't recognize the reflection as their own image. Chimpanzees ...
Sep 29, 2010 |
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Monkeys with larger friend networks have more gray matter
New research in the UK on rhesus macaque monkeys has found for the first time that if they live in larger groups they develop more gray matter in parts of the brain involved in processing information on social ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 04, 2011 |
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Neuroscientists find neural stopwatch in the brain
(PhysOrg.com) -- Keeping track of time is one of the brain's most important tasks. As the brain processes the flood of sights and sounds it encounters, it must also remember when each event occurred. But how ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 19, 2009 |
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Study reveals baby monkeys may be affected for life if separated from their mothers
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study by scientists in China has found that baby rhesus macaques stressed by being separated from their mothers remained anxious and had poor social skills even three years after separation. ...
Aug 19, 2011 |
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Important brain area organized by color and orientation
A brain area known to play a critical role in vision is divided into compartments that respond separately to different colors and orientations, Vanderbilt University researchers have discovered. The findings have important ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 16, 2010 |
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Rhesus macaque moms 'go gaga' for baby, too
The intense exchanges that human mothers share with their newborn infants may have some pretty deep roots, suggests a study of rhesus macaques reported online on October 8th in Current Biology.
Oct 08, 2009 |
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AIDS: Microbicide gel 'highly encouraging' in lab tests
The dogged search for a vaginal gel to thwart the AIDS virus earned some good news on Wednesday as scientists announced that a cheap, commonly-used compound shielded monkeys from a lethal cousin of HIV.
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Mar 04, 2009 |
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Flossing monkeys 'proof' animals teach tool use
Thai monkeys have been observed showing their young how to floss -- proof primates teach offspring to use tools, a Japanese researcher said Wednesday.
Mar 11, 2009 |
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Relief from itch seen in nerves; may aid treatment
(AP) -- Scratch an itch and you get ... aaaaaah. Now scientists have watched spinal nerves transmit that relief signal to the brain in monkeys, a possible step toward finding new treatments for persistent itching in people.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 06, 2009 |
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Researchers unveil new monkey model for HIV
By altering just one gene in HIV-1, scientists have succeeded in infecting pig-tailed macaque monkeys with a human version of the virus that has until now been impossible to study directly in animals. The new strain of HIV ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Mar 02, 2009 |
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Researchers identify parallel mechanism monkeys and humans use to recognize faces
Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, have demonstrated for the first time rhesus monkeys and humans share a specific perceptual mechanism, configural perception, for discriminating ...
Jun 25, 2009 |
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Experimental treatment protects monkeys from lethal Ebola virus post-exposure
Scientists using tiny particles of genetic material to interfere in the replication process of the deadly Ebola virus have successfully prevented monkeys exposed to that virus from dying of hemorrhagic fever. The proof-of-concept ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 27, 2010 |
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Monkeys have better basic counting skills than originally thought
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a recent study published in Nature Communications, it appears that Old World monkeys have the ability to count better than was originally thought. The research also shows that when presen ...
Mar 31, 2011 |
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