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Elephant cognition is the study of animal cognition as present in elephants. Most contemporary ethologists view the elephant as one of the world's most intelligent animals. With a mass of just over 5 kg (11lb), an elephant's brain has more mass than that of any other land animal, and although the largest whales have body masses twenty times those of a typical elephant, a whale's brain is barely twice the mass of an elephant's brain. In addition, elephants have around 257 billion neurons. Elephant brains are similar to humans' and many other mammals' in terms of general connectivity and functional areas, with several unique structural differences. Although initially estimated to have as many neurons as a human brain, the elephant's cortex has about one-third of the number of neurons as a human brain.

Elephants manifest a wide variety of behaviours, including those associated with grief, learning, mimicry, play, altruism, use of tools, compassion, cooperation, self-awareness, memory, and communication. Further, evidence suggests elephants may understand pointing: the ability to nonverbally communicate an object by extending a finger, or equivalent. It is thought they are equal with cetaceans and primates in this regard. Due to such claims of high intelligence and due to strong family ties of elephants, some researchers argue it is morally wrong for humans to cull them.

Aristotle described the elephant as "the animal that surpasses all others in wit and mind."

What its All About by SXU-ART

Acrylic and collage on canvas, 38x38, 2019

Reunião BEC Behavior, Emotion & Cognition do CiS-Iscte_017 by Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

A reunião do grupo de investigação do CiS-Iscte, BEC, Behavior, Emotion & Cognition, teve lugar no Iscte, a 10 de abril de 2024.

Fotografia de Hugo Alexandre Cruz

Cognition and Learning Building Opening Day by Forman School

Session4_10 by Mathew Mitchell

" If you hit your inner space with a powerful cognition, the powerful cognition explodes as a higher level of existence in you " // Bhagwan Sri Nithyananda Paramashivam #kundalini #explosion #cosmos #universe #nithyananda #shiva #enlightenment #liberati by Spreadyourwiing s

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NEURONS AND OTHER MEMORIES Work in and around the brain by Miller ICA at Carnegie Mellon University

Curated by Patricia Maurides in collaboration

with the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition

Oct 10 – 26, 2014

bit.ly/NeuronsandMemories

Cognition and Learning Building and Diagnostic Center Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony by Forman School

_DSC1596 by Nancy Mauro-Flude

Microbites of Innovation Art Program of ACM Creativity and Cognition 2017

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The Allure of Violence: Bridging Perception, Cognition, and Culture by Neubauer Collegium

brown houndstooth by _lyle_

P1010168 by Pavel

Tatry Vysoké

Cognition and Learning Building Opening Day by Forman School

The Light by SXU-ART

Acrylic and collage on canvas, 50x50, 2016

Casey & Lyle by _lyle_

Cognition and Learning Building and Diagnostic Center Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony by Forman School

0060 by Nancy Mauro-Flude

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Microbites of Innovation Art Programme ACM CC2017 ©MarinaBaySands

old Brussels friends meet again by Aurélie Nyirabikali Lierman

Vernissage - Patterns for (Re)cognition, Bozar, Center for Fine Arts, Brussels

• Expo 15.06.2017 - 10.09.2017

• Book publication:

- 08.09.2017 - Bozar, Brussels

- 20.09.2017 - MACBA, Barcelona

photos © Aurélie Lierman

170203_cognition_panel-103 by Brooklyn Law School

P1010155 by Pavel

Kaple na Spišském hradě

Tell the Bees... Belief, Knowledge and Hypersymbolic Cognition by Joseph

Mouse sandwich. I forget why you would need to eat it but it works on the principal of sympathetic magic.

The Museum Of Jurassic Technology

www.mjt.org

Cognition_Cover by David Garza

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Simple is usually better... I think I was trying to put to much.

From Language as Speech to Language as Thought by Miller Info Commons

From Language as Speech to Language as Thought : the great leap in evolution (40,000 B.C.) by Grard Westendorp

Find it in the Catalog

Reunião BEC Behavior, Emotion & Cognition do CiS-Iscte_013 by Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

A reunião do grupo de investigação do CiS-Iscte, BEC, Behavior, Emotion & Cognition, teve lugar no Iscte, a 10 de abril de 2024.

Fotografia de Hugo Alexandre Cruz

Cognition zone-008 by Martin Whiting

El Questro Wilderness Park, Western Australia

USB Alumni Refresher by University of Stellenbosch Business School

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USB Alumni Refresher Seminar , 26- 27 August 2010.

Topic: CRITICALITY & COGNITION,

Ask tough questions; seek deep understanding

The University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB) and its Alumni Association hosting its 2010 Alumni Refresher Seminar. This is an annual initiative that originates from the need of alumni to return to the USB to debate a desired future and forms part of the USB's commitment to a culture of continuous learning.

Crowd _2 by SXU-ART

Gold Houndstooth with Black by _lyle_

Bling!

precision by Aurélie Nyirabikali Lierman

Patterns for (Re)cognition, Bozar, Center for Fine Arts, Brussels

15.06.2017 - 10.09.2017

Book publication:

- 08.09.2017 - Bozar, Brussels

- 20.09.2017 - MACBA, Barcelona

Elephant-eye-skin_w_9336 by ✴ Stephen Daly ✴

Tanzania, 2015

Elephant cognition is the study of animal cognition as present in elephants. Most contemporary ethologists view the elephant as one of the world's most intelligent animals. With a mass of just over 5 kg (11lb), an elephant's brain has more mass than that of any other land animal, and although the largest whales have body masses twenty times those of a typical elephant, a whale's brain is barely twice the mass of an elephant's brain. In addition, elephants have around 257 billion neurons. Elephant brains are similar to humans' and many other mammals' in terms of general connectivity and functional areas, with several unique structural differences. Although initially estimated to have as many neurons as a human brain, the elephant's cortex has about one-third of the number of neurons as a human brain.

Elephants manifest a wide variety of behaviours, including those associated with grief, learning, mimicry, play, altruism, use of tools, compassion, cooperation, self-awareness, memory, and communication. Further, evidence suggests elephants may understand pointing: the ability to nonverbally communicate an object by extending a finger, or equivalent. It is thought they are equal with cetaceans and primates in this regard. Due to such claims of high intelligence and due to strong family ties of elephants, some researchers argue it is morally wrong for humans to cull them.

Aristotle described the elephant as "the animal that surpasses all others in wit and mind."

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