Imitation of actions is widespread in the animal kingdom, but the mental capacities thereby implied vary greatly according to the adaptive function of copying. Behavioral synchrony in social species has many po
In these animal examples, collective behavior is a product of the interactions of individuals, not determined by a leader or an external signal. There are also several examples from non-living systems, such as vortexes, crystallization, self-assembly, and pattern formation in general9,10. In ...
The term "nature" may refer to living plants and animals, geological processes, weather, and physics, such as matter and energy. The term is often refers to the "natural environment" or wilderness—wild animals, rocks, forest, beaches, and in general areas that have not been substantially al...
biology, mathematics, electronic engineering and physics -- to create bio-inspired computer systems andhardware. Of the brain's biological structures, neuromorphic architectures are most often modelled after neurons and synapses. This is because neuroscientists consider neurons the fundamental units of the...
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David: Do you see times, where there’s issues of too much imitation of what cultural imitation allows us to do, is advance as a culture? And you can almost think of like, as a free riding in a good way, but are there times where cultural limitation actually leads to really bad ...
is what we would find ourselves doing if we simply looked for references to research on dogs in one of the great texts on animal cognition, such as Mackintosh’s (1974) survey of animal learning at the end of its heyday, or Shettleworth’s (2010) study of animal cognition in the ...
www.nature.com/scientificreports OPEN How white and black bodies are perceived depends on what emotion is expressed received: 30 January 2016 accepted: 20 December 2016 Published: 27 January 2017 Rebecca Watson1 & Beatrice de Gelder1,2 Body language is a powerful indicator of others' ...
Observational learning is especially impor- tant to human beings. In fact, watching other people is another way in which human infants acquire skills. Human infants differ from baby monkeys in their strong reliance on imitation (Bandura, 2009a, 2011a). After watching an adult model perform a ...