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Was dem Huhn ins Ohr geht
Bild der Wissenschaft: Die kleinen Hühner wurden für die Tests bereits kurz nach dem Schlüpfen darauf trainiert, einem kleinen roten Plastikzylinder zu folgen. Im eigentlichen Test ein paar Tage später setzten die Forscher sie dann
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Chicks Dig Certain Types of Music
Newly hatched chicks appear to prefer certain sounds over others, just like human infants, suggesting that this musical preference may be innate.
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A New Bristle in The Toothbrush Problem
I greatly appreciated APS President Walter Mischel’s Column “The Toothbrush Problem” (Observer, Vol. 21, No. 11) describing the tendency of science professors, especially those not yet tenured, to produce needless new models and explanations for
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Reflections on Mirror Neurons
In 1992, a team at the University of Parma, Italy discovered what have been termed “mirror neurons” in macaque monkeys: cells that fire both when the monkey took an action (like holding a banana) and
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Kids Learn to Work Together Early, Study Finds
U.S. News & World Report (HealthDay): Some adults may want to take a lesson from young who’ve demonstrated that even children at the early age of 3, children have a sense of what’s fair, researchers
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Young Children Choose to Share Prizes After Working Together
Grownups have a good sense of what’s fair. Research now shows that this is true for young children, too. In a study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, three-year-old
