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| Herbert Terrace: Project Nim - the untold story |
 The keynote lecture at this Winter Conference on Animal Learning and Behavior was presented by Herb Terrace who started a research project on the chimpanzee Nim Chimpsky in 1972. You can watch the HBO/BBC documentary o...[more] |
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| Posted on Monday 30 January 2012 - 01:54:21 |
| 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 |
| Creationists, this is the evidence you have to beat |
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| Posted on Tuesday 19 April 2011 - 18:12:30 |
| 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] |
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| Posted on Saturday 28 January 2012 - 16:37:45 |
| ICN2010: One of the genetic roots of language points to self-learning in fruit flies |
| 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] |
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| Posted on Friday 30 July 2010 - 19:02:06 |