Jay, During the recent Neuroscience 2008 conference, I heard no support for your challenges but much support for the position Sonny maintains with regard to...
James Kohl: You say: "Surely, the proximate mechanisms by which the behavior of one individual influences the behavior of another individual is not the same...
Jay, You removed from your response the following paragraphs that tell you about the common mechanism. I've told you about this, repeatedly, and that I have...
James Kohl: During the recent Neuroscience 2008 conference . . . the IRM was referred to as an outdated "black box" approach; one that inspired the terms...
Sonny Williams: When discussing oxytocin and vasopressin's strong conservation, you interjected your common refrain: "That is not the same as the conservation...
Sonny Williams: Jay, Yes, I'm obviously "arguing with someone's else's speculation" because it is informed speculation. These papers contained specific...
Sonny Williams: Jay, To me, patterned behavior can include things like moods and similar, apparently instinctive predispositions. Jay R. Feierman: This is a...
Sonny Williams: No, "the proximate mechanisms that regulate [social] behavior" are not the same in all social species, but all such species share a common...
James Kohl: You say: "Surely, the proximate mechanisms by which the behavior of one individual influences the behavior of another individual is not the same...
Jay, It sounds to me very much like you are saying that several articles in the November 7th issue of Science are not good science (e.g., your presumption) --...
Jay, After Sonny's quote I quoted: "Within minutes, but after the onset of behavioral change, egr1 is induced specifically in the hypothalamic anterior...
Exluded from my comment by your ellipses is the fact that: "Not even among a subset of neuroethologists could I find anyone who would 'think' of referring to...
James Kohl: Exluded from my comment by your ellipses is the fact that: "Not even among a subset of neuroethologists could I find anyone who would 'think' of...
James Kohl: Obviously, I'm attempting to discuss social behavior, not writing my name on a piece of paper--another changeling discussion/debate. Jay R....
Expressing Emotions In E-mail So As Not To Be Misinterpreted. Sat Nov 29, 2008 3:19 am (PST) Expressing Emotions In E-mail So As Not To Be Misinterpreted ...
Needy amoebae reach out to "family" Sun Nov 30, 2008 5:44 pm (PST) http://www.world-science.net/othernews/081124_amoebae Needy amoebae reach out to "family" ...
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/38692/title/Sleep_makes_room_for_memories Sleep makes room for memories By Tina Hesman Saey WASHINGTON Â Sleep not...
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_48/b4110092474021.htm?chan=technology_technology+index+page_top+stories Making Computers Based on the Human...
What difference does it make between the modest worm and human beings, that the latter have an enormously developed prefrontal cortex? And therefore we are...
Jay, The term "innate releasing mechanism" is not used in the Wikipedia article. The first bibliographic reference is Pfaff, Donald W. When I told him at ...
James Kohl: The term "innate releasing mechanism" is not used in the Wikipedia article. Jay R. Feierman: I told you that the term "innate releasing mechanism"...
Jay, It seems you are confirming my position as stated: "If people studying physiology are by your definition studying the IRM, its lack of mention by people...
James Kohl: It seems you are confirming my position as stated: "If people studying physiology are by your definition studying the IRM, its lack of mention by...
News: Virtual Ears And The Cocktail Party Effect Adapted from materials provided by University of Oxford. University of Oxford (2008, November 29). Virtual...
Want Sustainable Fishing? Keep Only Small Fish, And Let The Big Ones Go ScienceDaily (Dec. 1, 2008) - Scientists at the University of Toronto analysed Canadian...
http://psyc.queensu.ca/~frostlab/neuro_eth.html In 1998 we initiated a program to study the neuroethology of conspecific recognition in pigeons, having shown...