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Can brainless animals think?

"Brainless does not necessarily mean neuron-less," Simon Sprecher, a professor of neurobiology at the University of Fribourg ...
Have you ever forgotten something so simple and mundane like what you ate the other day repeatedly? If the answer is yes, then you might want to get a Neurologist consultation for Alzheimer's disease.
The authors used a Bayesian modeling framework to fit behavior and serotonin neuron activity to reward history across multiple timescales. A key goal was to distinguish value coding from other ...
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The political scientist Charles Murray, best known for The Bell Curve and other fiercely debated works on human intelligence, has taken up a more metaphysical interest: the existence of the soul. In a ...
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We often applaud animals for learning tricks. But until recently, we rarely acknowledged that significant intelligence ...
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