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Mockingbirds Recognize, Remember Bad People

By Kurt | Published: May 19, 2009
Mockingbirds, no bird brains, can recognize a face in a crowd – EurekAlert! University of Florida biologists are reporting that mockingbirds recognize and remember people whom the birds perceive as threatening their nests. If the white-and-grey songbirds common in cities and towns throughout the Southeast spot their unwelcome guests, they screech, dive bomb and even sometimes [...]
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Quick Takes 04.29.2009

By Kurt | Published: April 29, 2009
• Dietary fats trigger long-term memory formation – U. C. Irvine via EurekAlert! “OEA is part of the molecular glue that makes memories stick,” Piomelli said. “By helping mammals remember where and when they have eaten a fatty meal, OEA’s memory-enhancing activity seems to have been an important evolutionary tool for early humans and other mammals.” Dietary [...]
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Quick Takes 04.17.2009

By Kurt | Published: April 17, 2009
• Are we organisms or living ecosystems? – SEED As soon as we are born, bacteria move in. They stake claims in our digestive and respiratory tracts, our teeth, our skin. They establish increasingly complex communities, like a forest that gradually takes over a clearing. By the time we’re a few years old, these communities have [...]
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“Musicians have biological advantage in identifying emotion in sound”

By Kurt | Published: March 5, 2009
Researchers at Northwestern University have learned that musicians posses an advanced ability of discerning emotion in sound via a more “finely tuned” auditory system. Musicians have biological advantage in identifying emotion in sound – EurekAlert “Quickly and accurately identifying emotion in sound is a skill that translates across all arenas, whether in the predator-infested jungle or in [...]
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