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Horm Behav
June 2020
Oxford College of Emory University, United States of America. Electronic address:
Studying neuroendocrine behavioral regulatory mechanisms in a variety of species across vertebrate groups is critical for determining how they work in natural contexts, how they evolved, and ultimately what can be generalized from them, potentially even to humans. All of the above are difficult, at best, if work within our field is exclusively done in traditional laboratory organisms. The importance of comparative approaches for understanding the relationships between hormones and behavior has been recognized and advocated for since our field's inception through a series of papers centered upon a poetic metaphor of Snarks and Boojums, all of which have articulated the benefits that come from studying a diverse range of species and the risks associated with a narrow focus on "model organisms.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this essay, the author notes that for the past half-century, psychologists have examined how humans make use of spatial representations when making judgments about numerical properties of sets of items. This line of work was initiated by Frank Restle (1970), who asked college students at Indiana University to choose the larger number, either the sum of A + B or C, as rapidly as possible. Restle found that the timing of people's choices fit an analog model of numerical judgment that had been proposed a few years earlier (Moyer & Landauer, 1967) and that people seemed to judge the magnitude of numbers by their position on a mental number line.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ R Soc Med
January 2013
President, Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole St, London W1G 0AE, UK.
J R Soc Med
January 2013
Centre for Medication Safety and Service Quality, Department of Practice and Policy, UCL School of Pharmacy, London WC1H 9JP, UK.
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