Keep children away from macaque monkeys!

On Methods to Keep Learning Away from Intractability

We investigate the complexity of learning from restricted sets of training examples. With the intention to make learning easier we introduce two types of restrictions that describe the permitted training examples. The strength of the restrictions can be tuned by choosing speciic parameters. We ask how strictly their values must be limited to turn NP-complete learning problems into polynomial-ti...

Swim everyday to keep dementia away.

A sound mind resides in a sound body. Many individuals with an active lifestyle show sharp mental skills at an advanced age. Regular exercise has been shown to exert numerous beneficial effects on brawn as well as brain. The present study was undertaken to evaluate the influence of swimming on memory of rodents. A specially designed hexagonal water maze was used for the swimming exposures of an...

Cavernoma today: keep the surgeon away?

Macaque monkeys experience visual crowding.

In peripheral vision, objects that are easily discriminated on their own become less discriminable in the presence of surrounding clutter. This phenomenon is known as crowding.The neural mechanisms underlying crowding are not well understood. Better insight might come from single-neuron recording in nonhuman primates, provided they exhibit crowding; however, previous demonstrations of crowding ...

Rhythm sensitivity in macaque monkeys

This study provides evidence that monkeys are rhythm sensitive. We composed isochronous tone sequences consisting of repeating triplets of two short tones and one long tone which humans perceive as repeating triplets of two weak and one strong beat. This regular sequence was compared to an irregular sequence with the same number of randomly arranged short and long tones with no such beat struct...