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Prologue -- Part one. Social behavior. Primate diversity -- Barbary macaques : model monkeys -- Primate social systems -- Chacma baboons : into the wild -- Guinea baboons : uncharted territories -- ...

When the brain is observed through imaging, there is a lot of "noise," which is spontaneous electrical activity that comes from a resting brain. This appears to be different from brain activity that ...

The Illusion Divide: When exposed to a motion aftereffect, human observers perceive a stationary object as shifted in the opposite direction. Primate inferior temporal (IT) cortex neurons mirrored ...

For the first time, neuroscientists have identified that primate-like connectivity between the cerebellum (Latin for "little brain") and the cerebrum may be linked to superior avian intelligence and ...

There are around 500 living species of primates today, and they are split into two major groups – the strepsirrhines and the haplorhines. Strepsirrhines include lemurs, lorises, pottos, and galagos, ...