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Comprehension of "absence" by an African Grey parrot: Learning with respect to questions of same/different.

An African Grey parrot, Alex, learned to report on the absence or presence of similarity and difference between two objects. Alex was shown pairs of objects that were (a) totally dissimilar, (b) identical, or (c) similar or different with respect to one of three attributes (color, shape, or material). In the first two cases, he responded to the respective queries of "What's same?" or "What's di...

Why Do You Ask So Many Questions ?

[N]o amount of telling somebody in mere words that one is or is not angry is the same as what one might tell them by gesture or tone of voice .... Anyhow, it is all nonsense. I mean, the notion that language is made of words is all nonsense -and when I said that gestures could not be translated into "mere words/' I was talking nonsense, because there is no such thlng as "mere words" ... Gregory...

Investigating the process of problem posing

Abstract: In the first part of this study, first a brief introduction of problem posing was present and then, some frameworks and classifications of problem posing were reviewed. In the second part of the study the research that has been conducted in Iran was introduced. This quasi-experimental study was conducted with experimental and control groups which aimed to investigate the impact of fos...

Eukaryotic transcription regulators derive from ancient enzymatic domains

Science What is it famous for? Being in the 'top two' science journals by age and prestige, along with its long-time rival, Nature. Both remain the only weekly science journals, publishing in all areas, from astronomy to zoology, and aiming to reach the vanishing 'Renaissance man' — a reader interested in research from fields far from his/her own. What's distinctive about Science? At the moment...

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