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ICN2010: One of the genetic roots of language points to self-learning in fruit flies
ResearchBlogging.org In 2001, an article was published in the journal Nature that a mutation in the forkhead-domain gene FOXP2 is involved in a hereditary speech and language disorder in a family in Great Britain. Today, many refer to FOXP2...[more]
FoxP   FoxP2   PKC   self-learning   world-learning   operant   language   speech   evolution   ICN2010   
Posted on Friday 30 July 2010 - 19:02:06

SfN2010: Drosophila FoxP is required for operant self-learning
At this year's SfN annual meeting in San Diego, I will present our data on the fly orthologue of the human 'language gene' FOXP2. The poster will be up on Tuesday afternoon, so if you're interested in these sorts of thin...[more]
FoxP   operant learning   self-learning   language   
Posted on Sunday 14 November 2010 - 20:45:40

The neurobiology of operant conditioning

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operant conditioning   self-learning   rutabaga   PKC   FoxP   
Posted on Thursday 28 April 2011 - 14:18:28

My guest blog for #NPGsfn11: habit formation as self-learning, an ancient organization of behavior?

This post was written for the "actionpotential" blog over at blogs.nature.com in their #NPGsfn11 guest blog series. You can see some editing that has happened in the post over there, this here is the original how I wrote...[more]
self-learning   habit formation   actions   goal-directed actions   foxp   
Posted on Sunday 13 November 2011 - 20:02:29

Winter Conference on Animal Learning and Behavior: Project Nim

This upcoming conference will be very different from any other conference I've been to. First, there are only 20 participants, the smallest meeting I've ever been to. Second, it will be all about mammals, and mostly even...[more]
wcalb   nim chimpsky   chomsky   terrace   language   foxp   
Posted on Saturday 28 January 2012 - 16:37:45

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