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  2. Animal cognition - Wikipedia

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    3.1 Perception. 3.2 Attention. 3.2.1 ... peck photos that contained partial or full views of humans and to avoid pecking photos with no human, despite great ...

  3. Synthetic oil - Wikipedia

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    Synthetic oils are also used in metal stamping to provide environmental and other benefits when compared to conventional petroleum and animal-fat based products. [4] These products are also referred to as "non-oil" or "oil free". A polyalcanoate synthetic oil is widely used to lubricate pendulum clocks.

  4. Animal consciousness - Wikipedia

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    Animal consciousness, or animal awareness, is the quality or state of self-awareness within an animal, or of being aware of an external object or something within itself. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In humans, consciousness has been defined as: sentience , awareness , subjectivity , qualia , the ability to experience or to feel , wakefulness , having a sense ...

  5. Animal perception of magic - Wikipedia

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    Magic is about violating expectations. [1] It capitalises on specific blind spots in attention and perception. While scientific interest in humans' perception of magic dates back to the late 19th century, when in 1896 Alfred Binet presented his work, this faded quickly, and has only recently, in the early 21st century, been revived.

  6. Cognitive bias in animals - Wikipedia

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    Cognitive bias in animals is a pattern of deviation in judgment, whereby inferences about other animals and situations may be affected by irrelevant information or emotional states. [1] It is sometimes said that animals create their own "subjective social reality" from their perception of the input. [ 2 ]

  7. Category:Animal cognition - Wikipedia

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    Animal cognition is the title given to a modern approach to the mental capacities of non-human animals. It has developed out of comparative psychology, but has also been strongly influenced by the approach of ethology and behavioral ecology. Much of what used to be considered under the title of animal intelligence is now thought of under this ...

  8. Multisensory integration - Wikipedia

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    Some support comes from animal studies that explore the neurobiology behind integration. Adult monkeys have deep inter-neuronal connections within the superior colliculus providing strong, accelerated visuo-auditory integration. [104] Young animals conversely, do not have this enhancement until unimodal properties are fully developed. [105] [106]

  9. Theory of mind in animals - Wikipedia

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    Much of the early work on ToM in animals focused on the understanding chimpanzees have of human knowledge. The term "theory of mind" was originally proposed by Premack and Woodruff in 1978. [2] [5] Early studies focused almost entirely on studying if chimpanzees could understand the knowledge of humans. This approach turned out not to be ...