More Rope Tricks Reveal Why More Task Variants Will Never Lead to Strong Inferences About Higher-Order Causal Reasoning in Chimpanzees [PDF]
Animal Behavior and Cognition, 2020 When chimpanzees (and other animals) use tools to pound, crack open, retrieve, soak up, pry apart, probe into, and/or dig up other objects (just to name a few of the operations of which they are capable), are these actions modulated by higher-order ...
Daniel J. Povinelli , Ty Henley
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Problem-Solving and Spontaneous Tool-Using Ability in European Brown Bears (Ursus arctos arctos) [PDF]
Animal Behavior and Cognition, 2023 Little is known about the cognitive abilities of bears, despite possessing relatively large brains for their body size. One reason this group is perhaps overlooked is because they are thought to fail to conform to the “social brain” hypothesis, by being ...
Helen R. Chambers, Sean J. O’Hara
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eLife, 2013 Functional magnetic resonance imaging has been used to identify the different networks in the brain that underpin the use of tools by humans.
Bradford Z Mahon
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An open source rule induction tool for transfer-based SMT [PDF]
, 2009 In this paper we describe an open source tool for automatic induction of transfer rules. Transfer rule induction is carried out on pairs of dependency structures and their node alignment to produce all rules consistent with the node alignment.
Graham, Yvette, van Genabith, Josef
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Examining Mobile Technology in Higher Education: Handheld Devices In and Out of the Classroom [PDF]
, 2012 This study followed an innovative introduction of mobile technology (i.e., BlackBerry® devices) to a graduate level business program and documented students’ use of the technology from the time students received the devices to the end of their first term
Cruikshank, Ruth +3 more
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What Human Planning Can Tell Us About Animal Planning: An Empirical Case
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 The ability to think about and plan for the future is a critical cognitive skill for our daily life. There is ongoing debate about whether other animals possess future thinking.
Gema Martin-Ordas
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A cross-cultural investigation of young children's spontaneous invention of tool use behaviours [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2020 Through the mechanisms of observation, imitation and teaching, young children readily pick up the tool using behaviours of their culture. However, little is known about the baseline abilities of children's tool use: what they might be capable of ...
Karri Neldner +5 more
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Travel fosters tool use in wild chimpanzees
eLife, 2016 Ecological variation influences the appearance and maintenance of tool use in animals, either due to necessity or opportunity, but little is known about the relative importance of these two factors. Here, we combined long-term behavioural data on feeding
Thibaud Gruber +2 more
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Using earcons to improve the usability of tool palettes [PDF]
, 1998 This paper describes an experiment to investigate the effectiveness of adding sound to tool palettes. Palette shave usability problems because users need to see the information they present but they are often outside the area of visual focus.
Bevan N., Brewster S.A.
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The Remapping of Peripersonal Space in a Real but Not in a Virtual Environment
Brain Sciences, 2022 One of the most surprising features of our brain is the fact that it is extremely plastic. Among the various plastic processes supported by our brain, there is the neural representation of the space surrounding our body, the peripersonal space (PPS). The
Francesca Ferroni +7 more
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