Cognitive effort is aversive and people will accept physical pain to avoid it, but this avoidance does not appear to share the same fundamental characteristics of pain avoidance.
Rats are highly social animals that show complex social skills, which has not been acknowledged enough when controlling them in the wild and conducting research in the laboratory.
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.
Henning Tiedemann, Yaniv Morgenstern ... Roland W Fleming
Humans are able to generate a complete category of varied objects from just one exemplar shape, identifying and utilizing its most distinctive parts to create a coherent group, even for other observers.
Hierarchical modeling of internalizing symptoms and task performance reveals that difficulty adapting probabilistic learning to second-order uncertainty is common to anxiety and depression and holds across rewarding and punishing outcomes.
Audrey Dureux, Alessandro Zanini ... Stefan Everling
Shared traits in gaze patterns and brain activations between marmosets and humans during Theory of Mind animations reveal cross-species cognitive similarities.
Marie-Eve Picard, Miriam Kunz ... Pierre Rainville
Facial expression provides a complementary channel to communicate pain experiences and reflects the activation of brain mechanisms partly distinct from those associated with subjective self-reports of pain.
Nicholas LaBerge, Kenneth Hunter Wapman ... Daniel B Larremore
Achieving gender parity among U.S. tenured and tenure-track faculty will require changes to hiring, which has substantially greater impacts on faculty gender representation than gendered differences in attrition rates.
