Showing posts with label animal behavior. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animal behavior. Show all posts
Monday, February 24, 2025

Evidence for a 'Theory of Mind' in Bonobo Chimps - they attribute knowledge or ignorance to social partners

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 Interesting work from Rownrow and Krupenye (open source): Numerous uniquely human phenomena, from teaching to our most complex forms of c...
Friday, February 21, 2025

How complex brains and cognition first arose

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I have received a draft of an upcoming paper in Behavioral and Brain Sciences by Coombs and Trestman titled "A Multi-Trait Embodied Fra...
Friday, February 07, 2025

Structural and Cognitive Mechanisms of Group Cohesion in Primates

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I pass on the abstract of a draft version of a new article by Robin Dunbar that I am reading through. It will appear in Behavioral and Brai...
Wednesday, January 08, 2025

Predictive coding for social perception

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Rittershofer et al. introduce a special issue of Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews titled " Neurobiology of Social Interactions A...
Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Neurons in the amygdala jointly encode the status of interacting individuals

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From Lee et al.: Highlights -Monkeys infer the social status of conspecifics from videos of dyadic interactions   -During fixations, neural ...
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...