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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Animal intelligence"”.
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Nico's bubbles : the story of a whale, some crows, and the search for sentience
… have long been drawn to the study of nonhuman animal cognitive and emotional intelligence, but have long come up short. Cognitive scientists look for signs of a sense of self, the ability to solve problems, and the capacity for communication in a vast array of nonhuman species, from cephalopods …
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Location of maximal "Kamin effect" with rats
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University of Agriculture and Applied Science. Dept. of Psychology, 1960
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Multi-agent Communication Protocols with Emergent Behaviour
… a theory of communication that integrates an animal intelligence technique together with a cognitive intelligence one. This results in a local co-ordination of movements, and global task coordination. Accordingly, agents are designed to communicate with other agents in order to coordinate …
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Transitive Inference and Commonly Coded Stimuli
This experiment examined whether stimuli that were commonly coded through association with similar outcomes would be treated differently when used in a transitive inference (TI) task than stimuli not commonly coded. A TI task was used in which stimuli were presented to pigeons as pairs (A+B-, B+C-, …
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Experimental investigations of cognitive abilities in a socially complex mammal, the spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta)
The evolution of intelligence is a topic that has fascinated us ever since Charles Darwin first proposed that humans share many mental traits with other animals, and that the differences in cognitive abilities between humans and other animals are a matter of degree, not kind. Currently, the leading …