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Physorg (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
Do people attribute certain personality traits or emotions to car fronts? If so, could this have implications for driving and pedestrian behavior? Truls Thorstensen (EFS Consulting Vienna), Karl Grammer (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Urban Ethology) and other researchers at the University of Vienna joined economic interest with evolutionary psychology to answer these questions. The research project...
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Neurophilosophy (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008
Nearly 70 years ago, Karl von Frisch described a peculiar behaviour in a species of small freshwater fish called the European minnow ( Phoxinus phoxinus ). Frisch, who was one of the founders ethology - the scientific study of animal behaviour - demonstrated that a minnow was eaten by a predator, a chemical released from its damaged skin elicited an alarm response in other minnows that were close...
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3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
From The New York Times: Max retrieves Frisbees. He gobbles jelly beans. He chases deer. He is — and this should be remembered when discussions of cases like his blunder into the thickets of cognitive ethology, normative psychology and intraspecies...
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3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
In the TLS, James Gould reviews Mike Hansell's Built by Animals: Hansell’s primary target is cognitive ethology, and in particular the late Donald Griffin. He takes umbrage at the title of an uncited article: “Thinking about thinking”. Even as loosely...
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Anorak News (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
BROWSING the Journal of Ethology, the Anorak happens upon the case of the Antarctic fur seal attempting coitus with a king penguin. This might have been going on for years, but that it should come to light now is not without scientific interest. “At first glimpse, we thought the seal was killing the penguin,” says Nico de [...]
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Wonkette (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
Here's your "Friday Fun Link," courtesy of BBC News and the Journal of Ethology. It is a King Penguin being sexually assaulted by an Antarctic Fur Seal. South African scientists photographed the...
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Memoirs of a Postgrad (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
In attempting to understand the workings of a complex system such as the human brain, psychology has analysed the behaviour of individuals when performing certain tasks to infer the internal processes at work as those tasks are completed. The study of behaviour is thus an important aspect of brain research. In zoology, the term ‘ethology’ describes the study of animal behaviour. ‘Artificial ethology’...
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Dogster For The Love of Dog Blog (Free subscription) | 02/01/2008
Csaba Monar barked in to tell us about what looks to be a truly ground-breaking scientific conference in Budapest, Huangary this July. If I could, I’d be there for this! If You know of anyone working in any area of canine sciences, please pass this on to them. The Department of Ethology, [...]
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DLD (Free subscription) | 01/21/2008
"> Jörg Blumtritt is Head of Community Marketing & Research at Burda Community Network. 1993-1998 Scientific Researcher Ethology (behavioral Sciences), social psychology; projects in nonverbal communication research, funded by European Commission, German Federal Government, Max-Planck-Ges. 1999-2003 SevenOne Media GmbH / ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG Unit Director Pricing / Inventory Management: Definition...
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ZDNet (Free subscription) | 01/16/2008
Scientists find that computers can interpret emotions based on a dog's bark, but people do a decent job of it, too. Hungarian scientists are working on computer software analyzing dog barks that could allow people to better recognize dogs' basic emotions, Hungarian ethologist Csaba Molnar said. Molnar...
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Impact Lab (Free subscription) | 01/16/2008
Hungarian scientists are working on computer software analysing dog barks that could allow people to better recognise dogs' basic emotions, Hungarian ethologist Csaba Molnar said.
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Infinitives Unsplit (Free subscription) | 01/16/2008
Working out how your dog speaks will indeed be a useful method of working out what it is that he wants : Hungarian scientists are working on computer software analyzing dog barks that could allow people to better recognize dogs' basic emotions, Hungarian ethologist Csaba Molnar said. Molnar and his colleagues at Budapest's ELTE University have tested software which distinguishes the emotional reaction...
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NeoWin (Free subscription) | 01/16/2008
Hungarian scientists are working on computer software analyzing dog barks that could allow people to better recognize dogs' basic emotions, Hungarian ethologist Csaba Molnar said. Molnar and his colleagues at Budapest's ELTE University have tested software which distinguishes the emotional reaction of 14 dogs of the Hungarian Mudi herding breed to six situations: When the dog is alone, when it sees...
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Innocent Bystanders (Free subscription) | 01/16/2008
Life imitates The Far Side: BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungarian scientists are working on computer software analyzing dog barks that could allow people to better recognize dogs’ basic emotions, Hungarian ethologist Csaba Molnar said. Yahoo News: Computer can help your dog communicate
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Reuters (Free subscription) | 01/16/2008
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungarian scientists are working on computer software analyzing dog barks that could allow people to better recognize dogs' basic emotions, Hungarian ethologist Csaba Molnar said.
