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Small Brains, Bright Minds

Learning, memory, and social behavior are innate properties of the honeybee that are essential for the survival of each individual as well as for the survival of the hive. The small, accessible brain of the honeybee and the availability of the complete sequence of its genome make this social insect an ideal model for studying the connection between learning, memory, and social behavior.

Leading Edge Essay Small Brains, Bright Minds

Insect brains are structurally very different from mammalian brains, and yet the basic demands of life are quite similar in both groups of animals. What, where, and how should experience be stored for effective use in the future? How should innate information be combined with acquired information? How do the motivational and evaluating neural systems interact? How does the brain choose among si...

Telerehabilitation robotics: bright lights, big future?

The potential for remote diagnosis and treatment over the Internet using robotics is now a reality. The state of the art is exemplified by several Internet applications, and we explore the current trends in developing new systems. We review the technical challenges that lie ahead, along with some potential solutions. Some promising results for a new bilateral system involving two InMotion2 robo...

Bright lights in dark places: physician recognition of alcoholism.

How Dark Is Dark? Bright Lights, Big City, Racial Profiling

Grogger and Ridgeway (2006) develop a feasible test for racial profiling "behind a veil of darkness" that exploits the exogenous variability in the visibility of driver race caused by the daylight savings time shift. The idea is that police are less able to use race as a criteria in traffic stops when it is dark, so differences in stop rates for African-Americans between dark and light (while c...