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A survey of 100 researchers in animal behavior, conducted by Marcela Benítez and colleagues from Emory University and published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, has provided insights into current scientific views on animal emotions and consciousness. The survey reflects a growing acceptance of these capacities in a wide range of animals, highlighting the evolving perspectives in the field of animal behavior.
Animal Group | Percentage Believing in Emotions |
---|---|
Non-human primates | 98% |
Other mammals | 89% |
Birds | 78% |
Cephalopods | 72% |
Fish | 53% |
Insects | 67% |
Other invertebrates | 71% |
The survey suggests a significant shift in scientific thought, with a majority of researchers now attributing emotions to a wide range of animals, even those previously considered less sentient. This indicates a growing acceptance of the complexity and depth of animal emotional experiences, likely influenced by recent research in animal cognition and emotions.
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Psychologists found that 44.7% of recorded earworms matched the original song's pitch perfectly, suggesting a common 'musical superpower'.
Dedre Gentner is a professor of psychology and cognitive science at Northwestern University. Her research interests include learning and thinking, analogy, similarity and metaphor, concepts and conceptual structure, language and cognition, and language acquisition.
A new model developed by researchers at MIT and the University of Washington predicts human goals or actions more accurately than previous models. The latent inference budget model identifies patterns in human or machine decision-making and uses this information to forecast behavior.
We measured both undirected FC (correlation in the time domain, coherence in the frequency domain) and directed FC (Granger causality, in both time and frequency domains) on the same data.
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