This week I had the privilege of writing a couple of articles for Scientific American, on whether animals remember past events in their lives, and how we go about testing it. You can read them here, and here. Photo: Time Imprisonment: Carlos Henrique Reinesch
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Cricket Fight Club: How is a Cricket Like a Rat?
When my brother and I were young, we were very careful to share the last bit of dessert equally. It’s not that we were particularly magnanimous. In their wisdom, my parents instituted a rule in our house: one of us would divide the snack in half, and the other would select his half. “You cut, [...]
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Rats, Bees, and Brains: The Death of the “Cognitive Map”
July 12th, 2011 |
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Humans, just like all other animals, face the same problem every day: how do we get around the world? I don’t mean how do we walk, swim, crawl, or fly. I mean, how do we navigate? If I leave in search of food, how do I find my way back home? Here’s one method I [...]
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