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Dorothy Fragaszy's sustained investigations have made her one of the world's foremost experts on tool use by capuchin monkeys and chimpanzees. A new paper from her research group provides a unique glimpse at how humans develop an ability to use tools in childhood while nonhuman primate remain only occasional tool users:
Fragaszy, a psychology professor in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and director of the Primate Behavior…
How do we change or mis-remember what we see with our own eyes? New research from the department of psychology seeks to unpack this intriguing process:
In just a few short seconds, the human brain helps most people extend the scene beyond what is actually seen.
Scientists at the University of Delaware discovered this concept in 1989 when they showed study participants real photographs of 20 scenes for 15 seconds and then had participants draw a…