When foraging for nectar many insects exhibit flower constancy (a preference for flower species which they have previously visited) and frequently ignore rewarding flowers of other species. Darwin ...
Life constantly throws things at you, and your ability to respond constructively is vital. However, this first requires that you modify your immediate reaction to triggers. When you're mentally and ...
Sigmund Freud had a nephew named Ernst with whom he would play peek-a-boo. Freud would hold a teddy bear at the edge of Ernst's crib and then drop it out of sight. Ever the scientist, Freud noticed ...
Twelve years ago, I decided to revive my interest in the French horn by signing up for private lessons. What better way to end the illusion of being a horn player than to get serious and put money ...
Scientists have found that neurons in the monkey visual cortical area V4*1, one of the areas in the visual cortex, calculate the size of an object based on information on its retinal image size and ...
A Markov model of pollinator activity is used to study the effect of constancy on rare plant species. Roughly, constancy is the tendency of the pollinator to continue searching for a flower of the ...
Even when we consciously know two lines are the same length, why can't we help seeing them as different? ILLUSIONS are anomalies that can reveal clues about the mysterious workings of the brain to ...
We know that neurons of different shapes perform different computations. But do the different shapes also help to make their functions more similar? Hermann Cuntz, researcher at the Ernst Strüngmann ...
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