Body size awareness matters when dogs decide whether to detour an obstacle or opt for a shortcut [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 Body-awareness is one of the fundamental modules of self-representation. We investigated how body-awareness could contribute to dogs' decision making in a novel spatial problem where multiple solutions are possible.
Péter Pongrácz +4 more
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Hooded Crows (Corvus cornix) May Be Aware of Their Own Body Size [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Body-awareness is one of the manifestations of self-awareness, expressed in the ability of people and animals to represent their own body physical properties.
Ivan A. Khvatov +8 more
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That dog won’t fit: body size awareness in dogs [PDF]
Anim Cogn, 2019 AbstractWith very few exceptions, no coherent model of representing the self exists for nonhuman species. According to our hypothesis, understanding of the Self as an object’ can also be found in a wide range of animals including the dog, a fast-moving terrestrial predator/scavenger, with highly developed senses and complex cognitive capacity.
Rita Lenkei +4 more
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Body Size Awareness and Modular Self-Representation in Reedfish (Erpetoichthys calabaricus): Near-Field Passability Judgments [PDF]
AnimalsBody size awareness—a component of bodily self-representation—allows animals to match their own dimensions to environmental constraints. This study tested whether reedfish (Erpetoichthys calabaricus), a benthic ray-finned species with limited vision, can
Ivan A. Khvatov
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Spatial Problem-Solving in Working Dogs: The Combined Effect of Body-Size Awareness, Social Learning and Functional Breed Selection [PDF]
AnimalsCooperative and independently working dog breeds differ in the extent of their reliance on human-given instructions; thus, they are ideal subjects for investigating dog–human interactions in a biologically relevant way.
Petra Dobos, Péter Pongrácz
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Cats are (almost) liquid!—Cats selectively rely on body size awareness when negotiating short openings [PDF]
iScienceVarious animal species can make a priori decisions about the passability of openings, based on their own size knowledge. So far no one has tested the ability for self-representation in cats. We hypothesized that cats may rely on their size awareness when they have to negotiate small openings.
Péter Pongrácz
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Bodily Awareness: How Flies Learn Their Own Body Size [PDF]
Current Biology, 2019 Animals need to perceive their own body size to apprehend their relationship to the environment. A new study shows that the fruit fly Drosophila acquires the requisite information on its body size from visual feedback during walking, and has further identified a subset of neurons responsible for maintenance of body-size memory.
Hiromu Tanimoto
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Diabetes awareness and body size perceptions of Cree schoolchildren [PDF]
Health Education Research, 2009 Native American Indians and First Nations are predisposed to obesity and diabetes. A study was done to understand Cree schoolchildren's diabetes awareness and body size perceptions in two communities that had diabetes awareness-raising activities in the Province of Quebec, Canada.
Noreen D. Willows +3 more
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Parental Awareness and Perception of Their Children’s Body Size
Open Journal of Medical Psychology, 2013 Objective: To investigate parents’ misperception of their active children’s size. Subjects: One hundred and forty male or female parents and their children from a youth soccer league participated. Actual Child Body Mass Index (BMI) percentiles and BMI categories were compared to the results of a Body Size Estimation Task and lifestyles questionnaire ...
Jane Allen, Glenda C. Prkachin
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Topology-aware Packet Size and Forward Rate for Energy Efficiency and Reliability in Dynamic Wireless Body Area Networks [PDF]
Journal of Internet Computing and Services, 2014 인체에 부착된 센서들의 위치는 인간의 신체적 활동에 따라 자주 이동된다. 이에 따른 노드 위치 이동과 비가시선상의 문제들은 무선 인체 통신망에서 핫 스팟과 에너지 효율, 그리고 신뢰적인 통신 성능에 영향을 미친다. 우리는 빈번히 변화하는 네트워크 토폴로지와 채널 조건을 고려한 포워딩을 결정하는 방법을 제안하였다. 본 논문에서는 각 노드의 라우팅 레벨에서 입, 출력 링크들의 비율에 근거하여 포워딩 비율과 패킷들의 크기를 제어한다. 또한 패킷 크기와 포워딩 비율 제어를 지원하는 격자 기반의 연결을 확장함으로써 네트워크 토폴로지를 견고하게 한다. 본 논문의 시뮬레이션은 이러한 접근들이 네트워크 수명을 48.2% 증가시키는 것뿐아니라
Sam Nguyen-Xuan, Dongwan Kim, Sunshin An
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