As you might have noticed from my posts, I love animals and share my household with several, including two cats–the Purrhana (he purrs and then bites you) and Coco Chanel, pictured here. All creatures crave routine, and when routine is disrupted, we can expect a reaction. Over the past few Read more…
Anyone who has spent time around animals suspects that personality, or consistent ways of behaving and thinking, is not unique to humans. Pavlov certainly thought his dogs had personalities, and he is not alone. Our two Australian shepherds certainly have plenty in common–smarts, loyalty, a “velcro dog” need to be Read more…
Back in the day when I was in grad school, I worked with Ron Siegel on hallucinations in rhesus monkeys. Ron had a gadget called a parabolic mirror that made an object at the bottom of the mirror look like it was located a few inches higher. He wanted to Read more…
Here is what I am reading today: the silent gorilla “Concentrating closely on a conversation can leave us ‘deaf’ to other sounds, reveals Dr Polly Dalton from the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London.” smarter than the average… bear? “Yogi Bear always claimed that he was smarter Read more…
Here is what I am reading today: recognizing faces – sometimes we focus on the details “How do we recognize a face? To date, most research has answered “holistically”: We look at all the features — eyes, nose, mouth — simultaneously and, perceiving the relationships among them, gain an advantage Read more…