Showing posts with label animal behavior. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animal behavior. Show all posts
Friday, May 17, 2024

Evolutionarily conserved neural responses to affective touch transcend consciousness and change with age

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Interesting work from Charbonneau et al. in macaque monkeys on the affective (gentle, pleasant) touch pathways that in humans use a differe...
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Collective behavior from surprise minimization

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A fascinating model for collective behavior from Heins et al .: Significance We introduce a model of collective behavior, proposing that in...
Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Memory for stimulus sequences unique to humans?

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Continuing the never-ending quest to find fundamental human abilities or behaviors lacking in other animals (many, like the mirror recogniti...
Friday, May 12, 2023

Virality

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This post is the ninth and final installment of my passing on to both MindBlog readers and my future self my idiosyncratic selection of clip...
Friday, May 05, 2023

The Data Deluge - Dataism

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This post is the eighth installment of my passing on to both MindBlog readers and my future self my idiosyncratic selection of clips of tex...
Monday, May 01, 2023

Panpsychism and Metonymy

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This post is the seventh installment of my passing on to both MindBlog readers and my future self my idiosyncratic selection of clips of tex...
Friday, April 28, 2023

Are we living in a simulated world?

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This post is the sixth installment of my passing on to both MindBlog readers and my future self my idiosyncratic selection of clips of text...
Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Is the mind a reliable mirror of reality? The marriage of physics and information theory

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 This post is the fifth installment of my passing on to both MindBlog readers and my future self my idiosyncratic selection of clips of text...
Monday, April 24, 2023

Networks and Emergentism

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This post is the fourth installment of my passing on to both MindBlog readers and my future self my idiosyncratic selection of clips of tex...
Friday, April 21, 2023

Equivalence of the metaphors of the major religions and transhumanism

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This post is the third installment of my passing on to both MindBlog readers and my future self my idiosyncratic selection of clips of text ...
Wednesday, April 19, 2023

The Illusion of the Self as Humans become Gods.

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This post continues my passing on to both MindBlog readers and my future self my idiosyncratic selection of clips of text from O’Gieblyn’s b...
Monday, April 17, 2023

Disenchantment of the world and the computational metaphors of our times.

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I am doing a second reading of Meghan O’Gieblyn’s book “Gods, Humans, Animals, Machines” and extracting clips of text that I find most inter...
Wednesday, April 05, 2023

The fundamentals of empathy

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Akinrinade et al. show that the neuropeptide oxytocin is responsible for emotional fear contagion, and involves the same regions of the brai...
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Friday, March 03, 2023

Empathy lost and regained in a mouse model of dementia

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A PNAS Journal Club article by Carolyn Beans points to work by Yao and colleagues that shows that a loss of empathy that is especially pro...
Wednesday, February 22, 2023

A fish passes the mirror self recognition test!

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Our human abilities continue to found in more evolutionarily distant species. From Kohda et al. : Some animals have the remarkable capacit...
Monday, December 05, 2022

A collection of animal stories

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I've accumulated several items on animal behaviors in my list of potential post subjects, and have decided to simply pass them on to all...
Monday, October 03, 2022

Triggers for mother love

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A fascinating open source article from Margaret Livingstone carrying forward the famous experiments by Harry Harlow:   Significance Harr...
Friday, September 23, 2022

Machine learning is translating the languages of animals

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Anthes does an article on how machine learning is being used to eavesdrop on naked mole rats, fruit bats, crows and whales — and to communi...
Monday, September 19, 2022

The sex of human experimenters influences mouse behaviors and neural responses.

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As I was scanning a recent nature neuroscience table of contents, the title of this item elicited an immediate “What the f…..?” reaction, s...
Monday, September 05, 2022

Animals (including us) conjure model-based structures from random events

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Superstitious learning is usually thought to be accounted for by conditioned association, but Jin et al. now show that monkeys can develop ...