The most characteristic feature of domestic animals is tame behaviour. An international team of scientists has now used high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to study how domestication affects brain morphology ...
Evolution
Jun 26, 2018
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Price labels influence our liking of wine: The same wine tastes better to participants when it is labeled with a higher price tag. Scientists from the INSEAD Business School and the University of Bonn have discovered that ...
Economics & Business
Aug 14, 2017
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The ability to make a Lower Paleolithic hand axe depends on complex cognitive control by the prefrontal cortex, including the "central executive" function of working memory, a new study finds.
Archaeology
Apr 15, 2015
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When a person attempts to express their thoughts in writing, they use a series of cognitive functions like working memory to access words and ideas they want to convey, phonological awareness of concepts such as syntax and ...
Education
Oct 17, 2023
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In a new study, researchers from Uppsala University in Sweden, together with colleagues from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, have investigated the impact that a barren living environment for sows leaves on the next ...
Plants & Animals
May 26, 2023
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With a long history of coevolution and coadaptation with humans, dogs have developed exquisite and complex heterospecific social and cognitive capabilities. Thus, the domestic dog offers a unique opportunity to understand ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 13, 2022
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Chimpanzees' personality traits are linked to the anatomy of specific brain structures, according to researchers at Georgia State University, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and University of Copenhagen.
Plants & Animals
Sep 29, 2015
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Farmed foxes selectively bred for tameness and aggressiveness exhibit similar changes to their brain anatomy, according to research recently published in JNeurosci. Both lineages also have larger brains than conventional ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jun 14, 2021
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