Symbolic Signal Use in Wild Chimpanzee Gestural Communication?: A Theoretical Framework [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Symbolic communication is not obvious in the natural communicative repertoires of our closest living relatives, the great apes. However, great apes do show symbolic competencies in laboratory studies.
Julia Cissewski, Lydia V. Luncz
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The Gut Microbiome Regulates the Psychomotor Effects and Context-Dependent Rewarding Responses to Cocaine in Germ-Free and Antibiotic-Treated Animal Models [PDF]
MicroorganismsCocaine use disorder remains a major global health concern, with growing evidence that the gut microbiome modulates drug-related behaviors. This study examines the microbiome’s role in cocaine-induced psychomotor activation and context-dependent reward ...
Andrew D. Winters +5 more
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Sex- and brain region-specific alterations in brain volume in germ-free mice [PDF]
iScienceSummary: Several lines of evidence demonstrate that microbiota influence brain development. Using high-resolution ex vivo magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), this study examined the impact of microbiota status on brain volume and revealed microbiota ...
Shawna L. Thompson +4 more
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Driving factors behind subjective resilience on organic dairy sheep farms
Ecology and Society, 2021 Organic sheep milk production under a protected designation of origin for Roquefort cheese in Aveyron, France, has developed over the past several years.
Augustine Perrin, Guillaume Martin
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Dutch slurs and the descriptive-expressive distinction
Glossa, 2023 There is a lot of debate about the meaning of slurs, which are words that refer to a certain group of people in a derogative manner. Many scholars (e.g.
Lotte Hogeweg
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Conventionalization of Iconic Handshape Preferences in Family Homesign Systems
Languages, 2022 Variation in the linguistic use of handshapes exists across sign languages, but it is unclear how these iconic handshape preferences arise and become conventionalized.
Madeline Quam +2 more
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The Geometry of Conventionality [PDF]
Philosophy of Science, 2014 There is a venerable position in the philosophy of space and time that holds that the geometry of spacetime is conventional, provided one is willing to postulate a “universal force field.” Here we ask a more focused question, inspired by this literature: in the context of our best classical theories of space and time, if one understands “force” in the ...
Weatherall, James Owen +1 more
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An Interactive View on the Development of Deictic Pointing in Infancy
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 In this review, we will focus on the development of deictic pointing gestures. We propose that they are based on infants’ sensitivities to human motion.
Katharina J. Rohlfing +2 more
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Performatives and prescriptives as markers of conventional-final component in ludic discourse
Актуальные проблемы филологии и педагогической лингвистики, 2020 This item focuses on the main ways of explication for performative and descriptive content in conventionalized acts of distributing actual roles within academic discourse.
Bredikhin Sergey N., Lana Dzh. Burgakova
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Conventionality and Reality [PDF]
Foundations of Physics, 2019 The debate on the conventionality of simultaneity and the debate on the dimensionality of the world have been central in the philosophy of special relativity. The link between both debates however has rarely been explored. The purpose of this paper is to gauge what implications the former debate has for the latter.
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