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Attention (Latest Articles)
Latest indexed articles for 'Attention'
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30 Jul 2009
A "framework" is presented for understanding empirically confirmed and unconfirmed phenomena in the Indo-Tibetan meditation system, from an integrative perspective, and providing evidence that certain meditative practices enable meditators to ...
rec_pub_19735255-new-beginnings-evidence-meditational-regimen-lead-optimization.htm
Classical mindfulness: an introduction to its theory and practice for clinical application.
30 Jul 2009
Among the modern versions of mindfulness, mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR) has played the key role in introducing mindfulness practice to the field of psychology and medicine. In fact, the efforts to integrate mindfulness into psychology ...
rec_pub_19735247-classical-mindfulness-introduction-theory-practice-clinical.htm
30 Jul 2009
The ability to share attention with another is the foundation on which other theory of mind skills are formed. The quality of care received during infancy has been correlated with increased joint attention in humans. The purpose of this study was to ...
rec_pub_19685976-does-early-care-affect-joint-attention-great-apes-pan-troglodytes-pan.htm
Sexual dimorphism in facial shapes and their discrimination in Japanese monkeys (Macaca fuscata).
30 Jul 2009
The authors examined the ability of Japanese monkeys (Macaca fuscata) to discriminate between sexes based on facial features. The shape and position of facial features (facial morphology) were measured to quantify the differences between sexes. The ...
rec_pub_19685975-sexual-dimorphism-facial-shapes-discrimination-japanese-monkeys.htm
30 Jul 2009
Apes use inferential reasoning by exclusion to locate food both in the visual and auditory domain. To test whether olive baboons (Papio hamadryas anubis) show similar abilities as the apes object choice experiments with differing information about ...
rec_pub_19685974-inferential-reasoning-modality-dependent-discrimination-learning.htm
30 Jul 2009
Female zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) use visual and acoustic traits for accurate recognition of male conspecifics. Evidence from video playbacks confirms that both sensory modalities are important for conspecific and species discrimination, ...
rec_pub_19685973-the-disassociation-visual-acoustic-conspecific-cues-decreases.htm
30 Jul 2009
The object-choice task tests animals' ability to use human-given cues to find a hidden reward located in 1 of 2 (or more) containers. Great apes are generally unskillful in this task whereas other species including dogs (Canis familiaris) and goats ...
rec_pub_19685972-the-performance-bonobos-pan-paniscus-chimpanzees-pan-troglodytes.htm
30 Jul 2009
Recent studies on the food-caching behavior of corvids have revealed complex physical and social skills, yet little is known about the ontogeny of food caching in relation to the development of cognitive capacities. Piagetian object permanence is ...
rec_pub_19685971-the-development-caching-object-permanence-western-scrub-jays.htm
30 Jul 2009
Nakamura, Fujita, Ushitani, & Miyata (2006) have shown that pigeons perceive the standard Müller-Lyer illusion. In this report, the authors examined effects of bracket sizes on perception of this illusion in pigeons (Columba livia) and humans (Homo ...
rec_pub_19685970-further-analysis-perception-standard-m-ller-lyer-figures-pigeons.htm
Moving shadows contribute to the corridor illusion in a chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes).
30 Jul 2009
Previous studies have reported that backgrounds depicting linear perspective and texture gradients influence relative size discrimination in nonhuman animals (known as the "corridor illusion"), but research has not yet identified the other kinds of ...
rec_pub_19685969-moving-shadows-contribute-corridor-illusion-chimpanzee-pan-troglodytes.htm
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