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Able-bodied wild chimpanzees imitate a motor procedure used by a disabled individual to overcome handicap
(2010-08-05) - Journal articleChimpanzee culture has generated intense recent interest, fueled by the technical complexity of chimpanzee tool-using traditions; yet it is seriously doubted whether chimpanzees are able to learn motor procedures by imitation ... -
Abnormal center-periphery gradient in spatial attention in simultanagnosia
(2014-06-04) - Journal articlePatients suffering from simultanagnosia cannot perceive more than one object at a time. The underlying mechanism is incompletely understood. One hypothesis is that simultanagnosia reflects "tunnel vision," a constricted ... -
Acoustic models of orangutan hand-assisted alarm calls
(2015-03-18) - Journal articleOrangutans produce alarm calls called kiss-squeaks, which they sometimes modify by putting a hand in front of their mouth. Through theoretical models and observational evidence, we show that using the hand when making a ... -
Acting in solidarity: testing an extended dual-pathway model of collective action by bystander group members
(2015-09) - Journal articleWe examined predictors of collective action among bystander group members in solidarity with a disadvantaged group by extending the dual pathway model of collective action, which proposes one efficacy-based and one ... -
Active drumming experience increases infants' sensitivity to audiovisual synchrony during observed drumming actions
(2015-06-25) - Journal articleIn the current study, we examined the role of active experience on sensitivity to multisensory synchrony in six-month-old infants in a musical context. In the first of two experiments, we trained infants to produce a novel ... -
Adaptation to facial trustworthiness is different in female and male observers
(2013-07-19) - Journal articleFace adaptation paradigms have been used extensively to investigate the mechanisms underlying the processing of several different facial characteristics including face shape, identity, view and emotional expression. ... -
Adapting to time : duration channels do not mediate human time perception
(2016-03) - Journal articleAccurately encoding the duration and temporal order of events is essential for survival and important to everyday activities, from holding conversations to driving in fast-flowing traffic. Although there is a growing body ... -
Adaptive cultural transmission biases in children and nonhuman primates
(2017-08) - Journal itemComparative and evolutionary developmental analyses seek to discover the similarities and differences between humans and non-human species that might illuminate both the evolutionary foundations of our nature that we share ... -
Adding a psychological dimension to mass gatherings medicine
(2016-06) - Journal articleObjectives. Mass gatherings pose distinctive challenges for medicine. One neglected aspect of this is that the behaviour of people participating in such events is different from the behaviour they exhibit in their everyday ... -
Adenosine-mediated modulation of ventral horn interneurons and spinal motoneurons in neonatal mice
(2015-10) - Journal articleNeuromodulation allows neural networks to adapt to varying environmental and biomechanical demands. Purinergic signalling is known to be an important modulatory system in many parts of the CNS, including motor control ... -
Adherence in behavioural interventions for stroke patients : measurement and prediction
(University of St Andrews, 2005) - ThesisBackground: With the increasing incidence in stroke and the resultant high prevalence of residual disability resources are not adequately meeting the needs of the patients. Furthermore patients continue to express ... -
Adolescent stress and social experiences : developmental antecedents of adult behavioural responses to unfamiliar stimuli and the underlying neuroendocrine mechanisms
(University of St Andrews, 2017-12-07) - ThesisDuring adolescence, animals leave the natal home and interact with potentially threatening stimuli (i.e. stressors), e.g. unfamiliar environments and conspecifics. Adolescent stressors can result in fewer interactions with ... -
‘Adoption’ by maternal siblings in wild chimpanzees
(2014-08-01) - Journal articleThe adoption of unrelated orphaned infants is something chimpanzees and humans have in common. Providing parental care has fitness implications for both the adopter and orphan, and cases of adoption have thus been cited ... -
Adult protection in Scotland in 1857 and in 2015 : what have we learned?
(2016-04-01) - Journal articlePurpose: The purpose of this paper is to compare recent developments in adult protection legislation, policy and practice in Scotland in 2015 with the first attempts at adult protection of adults at risk of harm, in 1857-62, ... -
Adverse childhood experiences and hospital-treated self-harm
(2018-06-11) - Journal articleAdverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have been implicated in a range of negative health outcomes in adulthood, including increased suicide mortality. In this study, we explored the relationship between ACEs and hospital-treated ... -
Aesthetic and incentive salience of cute infant faces : studies of observer sex, oral contraception and menstrual cycle
(2013-05-29) - Journal articleInfant cuteness can influence adult-infant interaction and has been shown to activate reward centres in the brain. In a previous study, we found men and women to be differentially sensitive to small differences in infant ... -
African elephants (Loxodonta africana) recognize visual attention from face and body orientation
(2014-07-10) - Journal articleHow do animals determine when others are able and disposed to receive their communicative signals? In particular, it is futile to make a silent gesture when the intended audience cannot see it. Some non-human primates use ... -
African elephants can use human pointing cues to find hidden food
(2013-10-21) - Journal articleHow animals gain information from attending to the behavior of others has been widely studied, driven partly by the importance of referential pointing in human cognitive development [1, 2, 3 and 4], but species differences ... -
Age-dependent cognitive inflexibility in great apes
(2015-04) - Journal articleThe ability to suppress and/or change behaviour on the basis of negative feedback, often conceptualized as cognitive flexibility, has rarely been investigated in nonhuman great apes across a broad age range. In this study, ... -
Age-dependent social learning in a lizard
(2014-07-09) - Journal articleEvidence of social learning, whereby the actions of an animal facilitate the acquisition of new information by another, is taxonomically biased towards mammals, especially primates, and birds. However, social learning need ...