from day 04/02/2009

Cultured Monkeys

In the last issue of Current Directions in Psychological Science, Volume 17 Issue 6, Pages 410-414, an article by Michael A. Huffman, Charmalie A.D. Nahallage, and Jean-Baptiste Leca (from the Primate Research Institute at Kyoto University): "Cultured Monkeys: Social Learning Cast in Stones" ...

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Astounding! Readers use their imagination when reading

La Lectrice Soumise (René Magritte) Everyday, in spite of the critics, neuroimaging keeps on producing vast increases in our understanding of culture. This week, for example, Boing Boing [1] and Physorg [2] enthusiastically comment on an fMRI study "forthcoming in Psychological Science" (though ...

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