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Measurement(s) brain measurement • motor behaviorTechnology Type(s)functional magnetic resonance imaging • electroencephalography (EEG)Factor Type(s)task • subjectSample Characteristic - OrganismHomo sapiens Machine-accessible metadata file describing the reported data: 10.6084/m9.figshare.12251765
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Language processing involves the ability to master supra-regular grammars, that go beyond the level of complexity of regular grammars. This ability has been hypothesized to be a uniquely human capacity. Our study probed baboons’ capacity to learn two supra-regular grammars of different levels of complexity: a context-free grammar generating sequenc...
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Across human cultures, conversations are regulated by temporal and social rules. The universality of conversational rules suggests possible biological bases and encourages comparisons with the communicative interactions of nonhuman animals. Unexpectedly, few studies have focused on other great apes despite evidence of proto-conversational rules in ...
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Group cohesion relies on the ability of its members to process social signals. Songbirds provide a unique model to investigate links between group functioning and brain processing of social acoustic signals. In the present study, we performed both behavioral observations of social relationships within a group of starlings and individual electrophys...
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Previous studies evidenced that already from birth, newborns can perceive differences between a direct versus an averted gaze in faces both presented in static and interactive situations. It has been hypothesized that this early sensitivity would rely on modifications of the location of the iris (i.e. the darker part of the eye) in the sclera (i.e....
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Animals in many phyla are adapted to and thrive in the constant darkness of subterranean environments. To do so, cave animals have presumably evolved mechano- and chemosensory compensations to the loss of vision, as is the case for the blind characiform cavefish, Astyanax mexicanus. Here, we systematically assessed the olfactory capacities of cavef...
Communication réalisée dans le cadre de l'atelier de "Co-design e-santé & maladies rares" organisé par la Fondation Maladies rares. Cette communication présente l'intérêt qu'il y a à développer la co-conception participative et itérative de dispositifs innovants, sur la base du travail menée dans le cadre du projet Philomène (financé par la Fondati...
Animals evolve their sensory systems and foraging behaviors to adapt and colonize new and challenging habitats such as the dark cave environment. Vibration attraction behavior (VAB) gives fish the ability to locate the source of a water disturbance in the darkness. VAB evolved in the blind Mexican cave tetra, Astyanax mexicanus. VAB is triggered in...
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