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Intelligent Crows Flunk Causality Test (But Babies Pass) – Phenomena: Not Exactly Rocket Science
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Betsy Mason & Greg Miller. A New Caledonian crow. Credit: Alex Taylor and colleagues. Not Exactly Rocket Science. A Blog by Ed Yong. Intelligent Crows Flunk Causality Test (But Babies Pass). Posted Tue, 06/10/2014. Her knowledge to actively shape her world. These two abilities understanding causality, and using that understanding seem so simple and mundane to us that it feels weird to lay them out, and weirder still to separate them. But they are. And improvise from unusual materials. If these crows are ...
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BehaviourBlog: September 2012
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Intermittent musings on all things behaviour-analytic, behavioural and neuroscientific. Tuesday, 25 September 2012. Recently, a study. Was published by Alex H. Taylor, Rachael Miller, and Russell D. Gray in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. PNAS) claiming that New Caledonian crows are capable of reasoning about "hidden causal agents". The study has generated considerable press interest (e.g., on the BBC website. And also a wide-ranging Reddit discussion ( here. Eight crows (five adults), w...
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Program - Understanding complex animal cognition:An interdisciplinary workshop
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Understanding complex animal cognition:. Please note all presentations are in the Australian Hearing Hub Lecture Theatre. 900am – 9.30am: Arrival. 930am – 9.45am: Welcome, Prof. Martina Möllering, Acting Executive Dean, Faculty of Arts, Macquarie University. 945am – 11.00am:. Prof Russell Gray,. Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History/University of Auckland, Title:. Neither a romantic nor a killjoy: some Bayesian thoughts about debates on animal minds. 445pm – 6.00. 1230pm - 1.30pm: Lun...