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Attention is a limited resource and is not a none-or-all response: the more attention devoted to one aspect of the environment, the less is available for others. [36] A number of experiments have studied this in animals. In one experiment, a tone and a light are presented simultaneously to pigeons. The pigeons gain a reward only by choosing the correct combination of the two stimuli (e.g. a high frequency tone together with a yellow light). The birds perform well at this task, presumably by dividing attention between the two stimuli. When only one of the stimuli varies and the other is presented at its rewarded value, discrimination improves on the variable stimulus but discrimination on the alternative stimulus worsens. [37] These outcomes are consistent with the notion that attention is a limited resource that can be more or less focused among incoming stimuli. Call JE, Burghardt GM, Pepperberg IM, Snowdon CT, Zentall TE, eds. (2017). "Chapter 23: Timing in Animals". APA handbook of comparative psychology: Perception, learning, and cognition. Vol.2. Washington D.C.: APA. Jaakkola K, Fellner W, Erb L, Rodriguez M, Guarino E (August 2005). "Understanding of the concept of numerically "less" by bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)". Journal of Comparative Psychology. 119 (3): 296–303. doi: 10.1037/0735-7036.119.3.296. PMID 16131258. Starr M (2017-12-31). "13 Surprisingly Weird Reasons Why Crows And Ravens Are The Best Birds, No Question". ScienceAlert . Retrieved 2020-04-04. Killeen PR (1991). "Behavior's time.". In Bower G (ed.). The psychology of learning and motivation. Vol.27. New York: Academic Press. pp.294–334.

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Several experiments cannot be readily reconciled with the belief that some animal species are intelligent, insightful, or possess a theory of mind.Couchman JJ, Coutinho MV, Beran MJ, Smith JD (November 2010). "Beyond stimulus cues and reinforcement signals: a new approach to animal metacognition" (PDF). Journal of Comparative Psychology. 124 (4): 356–68. doi: 10.1037/a0020129. PMC 2991470. PMID 20836592. Krueger K, Heinze J (July 2008). "Horse sense: social status of horses (Equus caballus) affects their likelihood of copying other horses' behavior" (PDF). Animal Cognition. 11 (3): 431–9. doi: 10.1007/s10071-007-0133-0. PMID 18183432. S2CID 16621030. Bernardi G (2011). "The use of tools by wrasses (Labridae)". Coral Reefs. 31: 39. doi: 10.1007/s00338-011-0823-6. S2CID 37924172. Claire Fuller is the author of Our Endless Numbered Days, which won the Desmond Elliott Prize; Swimming Lessons; Bitter Orange; and Unsettled Ground, which won the Costa Novel Award and was a finalist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. She has an MA in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of Winchester and lives in Hampshire with her husband.

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Another way to produce attentional priming in search is to provide an advance signal that is associated with the target. For example, if a person hears a song sparrow he or she may be predisposed to detect a song sparrow in a shrub, or among other birds. A number of experiments have reproduced this effect in animal subjects. [41] [42] a b c d Wasserman EA, Zentall TR, eds. (2006). Comparative cognition: Experimental explorations of animal intelligence. USA: Oxford University Press. p.8 ff. de Waal F (2016). Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0393246186.The novel object recognition (NOR) test is an animal behavior test that is primarily used to assess memory alterations in rodents. It is a simple behavioral test that is based on a rodents innate exploratory behavior. The test is divided into three phases: habituation, training/adaptation and test phase. During the habituation phase the animal is placed in an empty test arena. This is followed by the adaptation phase, where the animal is placed in the arena with two identical objects. In the third phase, the test phase, the animal is placed in the arena with one of the familiar objects from the previous phase and with one novel object. Based on the rodents innate curiosity, the animals that remember the familiar object will spend more time on investigating the novel object. [69] Spatial cognition [ edit ] Of the 16 volunteers at the double-blind vaccine trial, each isolated in separate rooms, Neffy turns out to be one of those selected for a dose of the virus, and spends a week close to death. When she emerges it is into a world that has been completely transformed. There are no staff left at Vaccine BioPharm and only four of the other volunteers remain: Leon, Yahiko, Rachel and Piper. The streets of London are empty except for bodies, crashed cars and a few extremely ill survivors; all television channels are unstaffed or off air. So far, so 28 Days Later – with the unsettling new resonance that comes from the fact that we have all just had a close brush with the outcome Fuller describes.

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