Topic: Emory University
Melvin Konner is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Program in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology at Emory University. In other moods lately I'm reading my friend Charles McNair's not-yet-published novel Pickett's Charge (his first book, Land O'Goshen ...
Bucknell University: Bachelor's in Animal Behavior Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, is home of the first undergraduate program in animal behavior in the nation. edu Emory University: Master's in Neuroscience and Animal Behavior Atlanta's Emory University offers a master's degree in neuroscience ...
Chimpanzees continually play coalition games; power is rarely in the hands of a single individual. Sometimes a single country is the main "balancer," such as Great Britain was in Europe before World War I. Frans de Waal, PhD, is a Dutch-American primatologist ...
A more exotic example was the 2008 march through the capital of Swaziland by poor women who felt that the king's wives had overstepped their privileges by chartering an airplane for a shopping spree in Europe. An experiment with capuchin monkeys by ...
From fashion trends to political movements, nothing is more human than following the crowd. Psychologist Solomon Asch of Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania highlighted the power of conformity in a landmark 1951 study. The findings suggested a role for the brain's reinforcement learning ...
Just as humans tend to model their behavior after that of famous and admired individuals, chimpanzees also appear to copy the example of their older, higher-status cohorts, new research reveals.. The finding that chimpanzees share the human inclination to adopt new behaviors ...
Electrode implants which zap areas of the brain have mysteriously helped ease the symptoms of crippling diseases such as depression and Parkinson's. Now brain scans could help predict who exactly might benefit from deep brain stimulation (DBS), based on seeing which interconnected ...
It seems only natural for humans to want to understand how our own brains work. Professors at Duke University and Emory University have just published a perspective paper in the journal Nature Reviews Neuroscience on the emerging field of neuromarketing, where researchers ...
Contagious yawning occurs when someone around you yawns and you yawn in response. In chimps, researchers have linked the behavior with empathy, so researchers studying empathy in chimps sometimes end up studying contagious yawning, as did a group of Emory University primate ...
The ability of microbial populations to increase fitness through fixation of mutants with an increased growth rate has been well described. Here, we compute the fixation probability of mutants that better survive the transmission bottleneck during the evolution of microbial populations. We ...
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