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Tool bending in New Caledonian crows [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 ‘Betty’ the New Caledonian crow astonished the world when she ‘spontaneously’ bent straight pieces of garden wire into hooked foraging tools. Recent field experiments have revealed that tool bending is part of the species' natural behavioural repertoire,
Christian Rutz +4 more
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Human Consciousness: Where Is It From and What Is It for
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Consciousness is not a process in the brain but a kind of behavior that, of course, is controlled by the brain like any other behavior. Human consciousness emerges on the interface between three components of animal behavior: communication, play, and the
Boris Kotchoubey
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Chopstick operation training with the left non-dominant hand
Translational Neuroscience, 2021 Training a non-dominant hand is important for rehabilitating people who are required to change handedness. However, improving the dexterity in using chopsticks with a non-dominant hand through training remains unclear.
Sawamura Daisuke +7 more
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A Framework for Fast, Autonomous, and Reliable Tool Incorporation on iCub
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2018 One of the main advantages of building robots with size and motor capabilities close to those of humans, such as iCub, lies in the fact that they can potentially take advantage of a world populated with tools and devices designed by and for humans ...
Tanis Mar +2 more
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Use of capillary electrophoresis as a method development tool for classical gel electrophoresis [PDF]
, 1998 Capillary electrophoresis (CE) was used to optimize the buffer pH, ionic strength and sulfated cyclodextrin concentrations for enantiomeric separation of piperoxan.
Gratz, Samuel R. +2 more
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Decoding the neural mechanisms of human tool use
eLife, 2013 Sophisticated tool use is a defining characteristic of the primate species but how is it supported by the brain, particularly the human brain? Here we show, using functional MRI and pattern classification methods, that tool use is subserved by multiple ...
Jason P Gallivan +3 more
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End-state comfort effects in adults with intellectual disabilities: A pilot study
Cogent Psychology, 2021 This study investigated the end-state comfort (ESC) effect in adults with intellectual disabilities (ID). The ESC effect represents a tendency to maximize comfortable hand and arm postures at the end of an object manipulation task.
Yukino Kikuchi +2 more
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Human Exteroception during Object Handling with an Upper Limb Exoskeleton
Sensors, 2023 Upper limb exoskeletons may confer significant mechanical advantages across a range of tasks. The potential consequences of the exoskeleton upon the user’s sensorimotor capacities however, remain poorly understood.
Dorine Arcangeli +7 more
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Peer crowd affiliation as a segmentation tool for young adult tobacco use. [PDF]
, 2016 BackgroundIn California, young adult tobacco prevention is of prime importance; 63% of smokers start by the age of 18 years, and 97% start by the age of 26 years.
Jordan, Jeffrey W +2 more
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Function and flexibility of object exploration in kea and New Caledonian crows [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 A range of non-human animals frequently manipulate and explore objects in their environment, which may enable them to learn about physical properties and potentially form more abstract concepts of properties such as weight and rigidity.
Megan L. Lambert +6 more
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