Across primates, volumes of specific brain regions relate to specific socio-ecological factors, bridging the gap between neuro-cognitive operations from laboratory studies and challenges primates face in their natural environment.
Hannah L Payne, Jennifer L Raymond, Mark S Goldman
A comprehensive modeling approach reconciles experimental observations with classic plasticity mechanisms in the cerebellar cortex, demonstrating how learning-related changes in neural activity can appear to contradict the sign of the underlying plasticity when feedback is present.
Alan V Rincon, Bridget M Waller ... Jérôme Micheletta
Detailed quantification of macaque facial behavior reveals a positive link between social and communicative complexity, and helps us to better understand the evolution of animal communication.
Eszter Szabó, Cinzia Chiandetti ... Giorgio Vallortigara
Without specific training, young chicks represent the absence of objects, showing that the concept of 'nothing' is available to nonhuman animals and does not require linguistic tools, such as negation.