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The Canine Cognition and Behavior lab enjoying local music and brews at The Lunchbox in Gainesville, FL. Minolta X700 - Rokkor 58mm f 1.4 - 35mm - Kodak Portra 400 shot at 1600 - No Push - Minor Blue Curve Adjustment in Gimp
This image is also an experiment on "tags" as I have added many more than I usually do and have kept them relatively related to the image though some have gone far afield. I have avoided using sex or sexual terms to boost my keywords. But I have researched popular searches on google images right now to add a couple of tags. As I said this is an experiment and not a trend of action for me.
About Ela's work:
In her first year MFA exhibition, Ela Boyd's light installations function as perceptual interfaces to explore apparition cognition. Using the tangible as an apparatus to catalyze the intangible, Boyd asserts the actuality of appearances. Holograms reflecting a series of adumbrated movements, projections that become windows into imagined worlds and light refractions giving the appearance of dimensionality, form an optical field that serves to collapse and expand the spatio-temporal experience. In spatializing the image and focusing on the decentralized character of the object, she posits a subject/object constellation wherein each node projects its image outward. Being-in-the-world is the intersubjective in-between space, visible in the superimposition of projected images.
This virtual reality dome at the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center (NSRDEC) allows researchers to assess environmental and equipment impacts on Soldier cognition, including decision-making, spatial memory and navigation. The research is part of the broader mission of the Center for Applied Brain and Cognitive Sciences, created jointly by NSRDEC and the Tufts University School of Engineering, which will also examine Soldier interactions with autonomous robotic platforms to augment and optimize human cognition, mood and physical capabilities. (Photo by David Kamm, U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command)
Mindmeister has a nice looking interface and does some flashy things with HTML but suffers from some basic usability problems.
For example, when I received this email, the first thing I saw was 'support for font sizes and styles', like I even remember signing up for this service or what it is.
This is something that happens a lot when you sign-up for projects that are in 'beta' - you receive an email saying basically 'our project is done - you should be as interested in it as we are.
Well, most people won't be unless they are reminded what you site does and why they might have signed up for notification in the first place.
Also, clicking on the Mindmeister logo doesn't take me to the homepage of the site.
I don't mean to sound totally negative, I think this is a great product and Google should aquire it ASAP.
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."
That night in the hibernation chamber, within its thermionic cortex a spark ignited into cognition, and Droideka 5 dreamt of electric sheep.
~ Stewart
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) (called emotionally unstable personality disorder, borderline type in the ICD-10) is a personality disorder characterized by unusual variability and depth of moods.[1] These moods may secondarily affect cognition and interpersonal relationships.
Other symptoms of BPD include impulsive behaviour, intense and unstable interpersonal relationships, unstable self-image, feelings of abandonment and an unstable sense of self. An unstable sense of self can lead to periods of dissociation. People with BPD often engage in idealization and devaluation of others, alternating between high positive regard and heavy disappointment or dislike. Such behaviour can reflect a black-and-white thinking style, as well as the intensity with which people with BPD feel emotions. Self-harm and suicidal behaviour are common and may require inpatient psychiatric care.
This disorder is only recognized by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) in individuals over the age of 18. However, symptoms of BPD can also be found in children and adolescents. Without treatment, symptoms may worsen, potentially leading to suicide attempts.
There is an ongoing debate about the terminology of this disorder, especially the word "borderline." The ICD-10 manual refers to this disorder as Emotionally unstable personality disorder and has similar diagnostic criteria. There is related concern that the diagnosis of BPD stigmatizes people with BPD and supports discriminatory practices
We’ve all heard by now that the Finns have excelled at developing the best education system for effectively educating children with less study hours than anyone else in the world. So I was curious to know how they did it because no one ever seems to discuss that part.
Journalist Amanda Ripley takes on the task of researching different systems that also produced high scores on the PISA test, an internationally given test to determine the scholastic aptitude of a 15 year old in math, science and reading as well as measuring cognition and problem solving ability. She visits the countries of note and follows three American students who attended schools in these countries to see how they viewed their experience. As well as interviewing educators in these systems and foreign students who come to attend school in the States.
The Finns high score significantly outranked neighboring Norway and Sweden which is of interest in terms of their similarities as Scandinavian societies with all the advantages of state welfare and a fairly homogenous population. They did it by first raising the requirements for teachers to become as rigorously educated as medical students. This in stark contrast to the low standards for US teachers where nearly anyone can be a teacher. Finnish teachers were also better paid and became more respected because of their intensified education. It showed.
Also in the running for high scoring tests is Korea with a brutal system resulting in students so exhausted they are allowed to sleep in class. Korea extracts the most hours from a child’s day augmented by tutors at night so schooling takes all their waking hours. This pressure cooker strategy is supported by a highly competitive society. The entire country focusing on the one crucial exam that determines a students prospects as they compete for high paying jobs. And the results are made public.
A surprising third in educational excellence is Poland which is mainly of interest because of the speed with which their system was revamped to improve their students performance in just 6 years going from an underperforming post communist society to able to compete in European job markets for desirable jobs. Poland also has almost as much child poverty as the States.
In a matter of three years reforms undertaken by a new Polish government promising reform established standardized testing of students as did the US though not quite as much while demanding more education be undertaken by existing teachers who were given bonuses for each upgrade they finished. The students were also given another year to learn together before being divided into trade schools or academic tracks. This additional middle school year brought up the poorest students along with the better off. And finally to make all these changes easier to swallow the teachers were given complete autonomy over the textbooks used and methodology. While local school districts were allowed complete autonomy in how to allocate their budget.
In all three countries the culture supported the concept of a rigorous education and students took their education seriously believing that it was needed to get good jobs. Also of note is that school sports is not included as part of the curriculum in any of these countries (and many others) thus schools did not have to attempt to hire teachers who could also coach a sport or divert funds from academic classes and time from a student's day for sports training. Sports was a club supported activity for out of school hours. It is also noted that parental involvement in the school has no affect on performance. But parents who read to their children do help them to do better in school. There are no PTA meetings. Teachers are just left to do their job.
The Finns stand out in that their system requires much less time from students yet still produces high test scores. While the Korean system is universally hated by everyone in it. The difference in terms of motivation and problem solving vs time spent in school seems to lie in the amount of personal responsibility offered to students in the Finnish schools. Finnish students are allowed large blocks of free time during which they can leave campus. Learning to make decisions and manage your own time seems to be a crucial component of learning critical thinking.
The excelling schools also spend very little on technology while well off American schools love iPads and interactive white boards with no seeming benefit in performance. It is also noted that race and diversity of the students does not affect their performance in the successful systems. Teachers focus on treating all students the same regardless of background. Schools also expected more of students once it was found that the sooner kids were tracked into slow and fast tracks the worse was the overall performance. Children labeled slow didn't improve, but just expected less of themselves and were often given fewer subjects to study which in itself creates inequity. Instead it was more effective to tutor kids as soon as they were getting behind so they could keep up and thus the overall school performance would improve too.
The underlying problem for the US school system is the use of property taxes to fund schools while in these excelling countries the allocation of tax money is to the most needy schools and students. As long as this tax system is in place education in the US will continue to short change the poor regardless of race. It is noted that standardized testing makes the system fair to all across parameters of race and diversity. The US system stresses test taking, but as long as standards for the education of teachers continues to be low there is no real support for boosting student performance the book claims. And no cultural shift can really occur to boost rigor in education if we don't start with demanding more from teachers. And how do we become serious about education for all if we do not take on this focus on core competency? US parents seem more interested in participating in their kids sports than in academic rigor she noted. The research brought forth in this book in 2013 seems to prove her point as it seems to have had little affect on discussion of actual quality of education in the US.
We all know that the tax system favors the rich and we can argue about whether this is about structural racism or classicism, but it seems clear to me that we are not really interested in actual basic quality of education for everyone. Just as long as those that do care can get their kid in the more affluent schools. Discussion of what is taught in schools is particularly heated these days about what unsavory history to teach or how many gender identities students should concern themselves with. I would say this has more to do with grooming students for political manipulation than critical thinking.
Lost Scene — “The Cytherian Convergence”
In this unseen moment from The Nth Degree, Lieutenant Reginald Barclay transcends the limits of human cognition as he taps directly into the Cytherian consciousness. Suspended within a swirling lattice of alien energy and thought, Barclay becomes both observer and conduit — his mind echoing through the luminous corridors of a higher intelligence. The Cytherian presence manifests not as form, but as waves of color and light, folding infinite data into emotion and memory. For one brief instant, man and machine, dream and reality, merge into pure understanding.
Electrodes administer transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) while sensors record oxygen levels in a test subject's brain as he performs a multitasking cognitive test in the Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation (NIBS) lab at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, July 19, 2016. Researchers working in the NIBS lab, led by Dr. Richard A. McKinley, Ph.D., are exploring how tDCS of the human brain affects cognition, fatigue, mood and other areas with the end goal of improving warfighter awareness, memory and focus. (U.S. Air Force photo by J.M. Eddins Jr.)
today was long. i made rocky road brownies in a cup. so it was like brownie cupcakes!
they were delicious! next time I will know when to put the marshmellows in and i substituted the walnuts for toffee bits. yum.
bible study was fun, i went shopping with my parents. painted my face, saw donnie, gave him some chewy fudgy rocky road brownies. :)
i need to do my culture and society hw, then i need to finish my business law and ethics hw, then i need to finish my memory and cognition psych hw PLUS i have a test this wednesday (oh crap!) study hard time...... *mc hammer song*
"cant touch this, na na na nah, nah na, na, nahhhh, ah uh, cant touch this."
yes, random. because its late as heck.
project 365: day 135
TOTW: Face Art
FGR: Sparkle Twinkle Twinkle
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Lappy setup for Cognition 2 - October 2008.
Live - loops and samples
Logic - Effects
Pd - Controls samples in Live after analysing attacks and pitch of vibraphone
Shu Long starts to have clear cognitive power these few days (just turns 4 months old). He now make noise with a purpose (other than milk request) AND he starts to realise moving his toe and seeing it moves is something he can match together!!! It was so funny watching him discover this amazing thing
During PBS’ YOUR INNER FISH session at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour in Pasadena CA on Tuesday, January 21, 2014, host Neil Shubin, series producer
David Dugan, evolutionary biologist Karen Sears and executive producer
Michael Rosenfeld discuss how the genetic legacy of prehistoric animals can be seen today in our own DNA.
(Premieres Wednesdays, April 9-23, 10:00-11:00 p.m. ET.)
All photos in this set should be credited to Rahoul Ghose/PBS
technology background in blue end red and profile of a man with gears and a light bulb made in3d software
Tricks of the Mind | March 2013TRICKS OF THE MIND - March 2013
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A question we're often asked is what is Mind Magic? Mind Magic is using magic (of the conjuring variety) to create the illusion that you can read minds, influence people and demonstrate paranormal & extraordinary powers, e.g. ESP, moving objects with the power of your mind and predicting the future.
It is sometimes called mentalism, although we use the term Psychological Artistry, and has been shown to be popular in the programmes of Derren Brown and other magicians. The workshops we run not only reveal these often guarded tricks and secrets, but merge them with psychology and neuroscience so that we can use and apply these approaches in therapy, coaching, business etc. For more information on these workshops, please see mindsways.com/SMS/
All of our workshops, Sleight of Mind Set and The Fascination all use Mind Magic tricks, tools and techniques and Psychological Artistry. There is one overriding theme within them all; that is the Show Not Tell principle. The Show Not Tell principle is all about making people experience and feel the message rather than just be told. The Show Not Tell principle is about engaging through emotions, not just logic and reasoning. The intellect finds the logic to justify what the emotions have decided.
To see more information about The Fascination, please see mindsways.com/the-fascination. For more on Sleight of Mind Set workshops, please go to mindsways.com/SMS/ and for more about the Show Not Tell principle, please look at mindsways.com/SNT/
TRICKS OF THE MIND
The real power of Mind Magic and Psychological Artistry lies not with just the tricks, but the effect that the delivery of the tricks have on people. On the workshops and in the packs we give you the tricks, however, learning to use them and turn them into effects is where the real power lies.
Delivering these effects, you can evoke the making of the extraordinary. By combining the tricks with the energy of your words, your message and your personality, you make yourself stand out, stimulate fascination and create interest in you. This is when the real magic happens, in the minds of others. To see what other's have said about the workshops, please see mindsways.com/about/what-people-say/
To see a few interesting examples of how magic can be used in communication, please see mindsways.com/the-fascination# PsychologicalTED
WHAT IS PSYCHOLOGICAL ARTISTRY?
To start with there are many definitions of psychology, but the one that sums it up for me is "the science of how we think". Next is the Artistry part, again, there have been many definitions but I like to think that artistry is a blend of:
Creating connection, rapport and emotions
Telling stories
Gaining and holding attention
Producing insights
Displaying human nature
Cognition
Show, Not Tell
Multiple Moments of Interest, Interaction and Insights (MMI's)
Therefore, Psychological Artistry is the blending of these two to create a method for successful communication. Psychological Artistry is where science and art meet Mind Magic.
Psychological Artistry is a route to form:
New Ideas
New Voices
New Questions
New Perspectives
New Expressions for our Passions
New Experiments
Expanded horizons
Emotional Engagement
Using Psychological Artistry is a way to express your personality, it:
Improves personal delivery
Increases your visibility
Enhances personal image and style
Powerful differential
Creates presence and raises profile
Increases perceptual awareness
Learning Psychological Artistry and Mind Magic is all about gaining access to valuable and guarded secrets.
Interesting examples of how all is not as it appears are the McGurk effect and Prof. Richard Wiseman's "The Incredible Colour Changing Card Effect", a well-known Fred Astaire clip and Rory Sutherland's Perspective Is Everything talk. Please take a look here or go to mindsways.com/SMS. These illustrate both the power and the approach of Psychological Artistry. I would love to know what you think.
MINDFUL ILLUSIONS
Understanding how powerful a role illusions can play in our life is extremely important. We can get dragged into the illusion that we cannot change ourselves, and this can affect us very deeply. We have to keep in mind that these beliefs are based on neuro-pathways that have wired themselves together in our past, and though they may even dominate our thoughts now, brain plasticity means we do not have to have this in our future. To see more about this, please mindsways.com/SMS#InfiniteMind
The SNT kit, which you get included in the price for the Sleight of Mind Set workshop, clearly illustrates that this previous wiring does not have to equal the future. It clearly shows us that we cannot believe what we see, but we see what we believe. For more on the SNT kit, please see mindsways.com/SNT/
THE ART OF CRITICAL THINKING
Our mind is our greatest strength, but is also the root of many of our flaws and weaknesses. We are emotional beings and do not always follow logic and critical thinking. However, logic and critical thinking are learned skills that still play an important role in our lives. This is another benefit of learning about Mind Magic and Psychological Artistry, because logic and critical thinking are skills and abilities that can be deliberately practised and developed through Mind Magic.
We all have flaws in thinking, including;
Logical fallacies
False assumptions
Unreliable memories
Rule of thumbs thinking
Beliefs through illusions
These fallacies are all used and highlighted by magicians. Learning and understanding Mind Magic is about applying a rational and logical system to our emotional situation. It is this ability that allows you to demonstrate you value, engage people on a deeply interesting level and help others which dramatically increases with your understanding of Mindful Illusions, Mind Magic and Psychological Artistry.
THE WORKSHOPS
All the workshops start at 10:00 a.m. and finish at 4:30 p.m. These are being held around the country, in:
Sleight of Mind Set
Scunthorpe | 29th March 2013
London | 2nd May 2013 (NEW DATE)
Birmingham | 7th May 2013 (NEW DATE)
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The Fascination
London | 2nd April 2013
Bath | 10th April 2013
Birmingham | 16th April 2013
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In the workshops, we will explore how Psychological Artistry and Mind Magic provide important insights into how we think, how we learn and how we experience the world, whilst training you in the tricks of the trade. As part of this workshop, you are supplied with whole new sets of routines and ideas in The Fascination Pack. This pack has been purpose-built to combine the psychology of fascination with the allure of Mind Magic.
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The grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus), also known as the Congo grey parrot, Congo African grey parrot or African grey parrot, is an Old World parrot in the family Psittacidae. The Timneh parrot (Psittacus timneh) once was identified as a subspecies of the grey parrot, but has since been elevated to a full species.
Taxonomy
The grey parrot was formally described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae. He placed it with all the other parrots in the genus Psittacus and coined the binomial name Psittacus erithacus. Linnaeus erroneously specified the type locality as "Guinea": the locality was later designated as Ghana in West Africa. The genus name is Latin for "parrot". The specific epithet erithacus is Latin and is derived from the Ancient Greek εριθακος (erithakos) for an unknown bird that was said to mimic human sounds, perhaps the black redstart. The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.
The Timneh parrot was formerly treated as a subspecies of the grey parrot but is now considered to be a separate species based mainly on the results from a genetic and morphological study published in 2007. Although Linnaeus placed all the parrots known to him in the genus Psittacus, only the grey parrot and the Timneh parrot are now assigned to this genus.
Description
The grey parrot is a medium-sized, predominantly grey, black-billed parrot. Its typical weight is 400 g (14 oz), with an approximate length of 33 cm (13 in), and a wingspan of 46–52 cm (18–20+1⁄2 in). The grey colour on the head and wings is generally darker than its body. The head and body feathers have slight white edges. The tail feathers are red.
Due to selection by parrot breeders, some grey parrots are partly or completely red. Both sexes appear similar. The colouration of juveniles is similar to that of adults, but typically their eyes are dark grey to black, in comparison to the yellow irises around dark pupils of the adult birds, and their undertail coverts are tinged with grey. Adults weigh 418–526 g (14+3⁄4–18+1⁄2 oz).
Grey parrots may live for 40–60 years in captivity, although their mean lifespan in the wild appears to be shorter—approximately 23 years. They start breeding at an age of 3–5 years and lay 3-5 eggs per brood.
Distribution and habitat
The grey parrot is native to equatorial Africa, including Angola, Cameroon, the Congo, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda. The species is found inside a range from Kenya to the eastern part of the Ivory Coast. Current estimates for the global population are uncertain and range from 630,000 to 13 million birds. Populations are decreasing worldwide. The species seems to favor dense forests, but can also be found at forest edges and in more open vegetation types, such as gallery and savanna forests.
A population study published in 2015 found that the species had been "virtually eliminated" from Ghana with numbers declining 90 to 99% since 1992. They were found in only 10 of 42 forested areas, and three roosts that once held 700–1200 birds each, now had only 18 in total. Local people mainly blamed the pet trade and the felling of timber for the decline. Populations are thought to be stable in Cameroon. In the Congo, an estimated 15,000 are taken every year for the pet trade, from the eastern part of the country, although the annual quota is stated to be 5,000.
Grey parrots have escaped or been deliberately released into Florida, U.S., but no evidence indicates that the population is breeding naturally.
Behaviour and ecology in the wild
Little is known about the behaviour and activities of these birds in the wild. In addition to a lack of research funding, it can be particularly difficult to study these birds in wild situations due to their status as prey animals, which leads them to have rather secretive personalities. It has been shown that wild greys may also imitate a wide variety of sounds they hear, much like their captive relatives. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, two greys sound-recorded while roosting reportedly had a repertoire of over 200 different calls, including nine imitations of other wild bird songs and one of a bat.
Feeding
Grey parrots are mainly frugivorous, with most of their diet consisting of fruit, nuts, and seeds, including oil palm fruit. They sometimes also eat flowers and tree bark, as well as insects and snails. In the wild, the grey parrot is partly a ground feeder.
Breeding
Grey parrots are monogamous breeders who nest in tree cavities. Each mated pair of parrots needs their own tree for their nest. The hen lays three to five eggs, which she incubates for 30 days while being fed by her mate. The adults defend their nesting sites.
Grey parrot chicks require feeding and care from their parents in the nest. The parents take care of them until 4–5 weeks after they are fledged. Young leave the nest at the age of 12 weeks. Little is known about the courtship behaviour of this species in the wild.[9] They weigh 12–14 g (7⁄16–1⁄2 oz) at hatching and 372–526 g (13+1⁄8–18+1⁄2 oz) when they leave their parents.
Conservation
Natural predators for this species include palm-nut vultures and several raptors. Monkeys target eggs and the young for food.
Humans are by far the largest threat to wild grey populations. Between 1994 and 2003, more than 359,000 grey parrots were traded on the international market. Approximately 21% of the wild population was being harvested every year. Mortality rates are extremely high between the time they are captured and they reach the market, ranging from 60 to 66%. This species also is hunted for its meat and for its body parts, which are used in traditional medicines. As a result of the extensive harvest of wild birds, in addition to habitat loss, this species is believed to be undergoing a rapid decline in the wild and therefore, has been rated as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
In October 2016, the Convention on the International Trade of Endangered Fauna and Flora (CITES) extended the highest level of protection to grey parrots by listing the species under Appendix 1, which regulates international trade in the species.
In 2021, the Kenyan government held a short amnesty, during which grey parrot owners could pay a fee to obtain a permit for their birds and facilitate legal ownership. Following the expiry of this time period, it is now illegal to own this species without a permit.
In captivity
The species is common in captivity and regularly kept by humans as a companion parrot, prized for its ability to mimic human speech, which makes it one of the most popular avian pets. An escaped pet in Japan was returned to his owner after repeating the owner's name and address.
Grey parrots are notorious for mimicking noises heard in their environment and using them tirelessly. They are highly intelligent birds, needing extensive behavioral and social enrichment as well as extensive attention in captivity or else they may become distressed. Feather plucking is a common symptom seen among such distressed grey parrots, affecting up to 40% of captive individuals. They may also be prone to behavioural problems due to their sensitive nature. Social isolation hastens stress and aging.
The grey parrot is a highly social species which relies on a flock-type structure, even when raised in captivity. Because they are so dependent on the other birds within their flock, much of their speech and vocal ability is acquired through interaction with the humans with whom they reside. Both wild and captive parrots have been shown to use contact calls, which allow them to interact with their flock mates and communicate information about their location, detection of predators, availability of food, and safety status. In addition, contact calls are used to form strong social bonds with their flock mates, or in the case of captive greys, with their human housemates. In captivity, they have been shown to display communicative competence, meaning they not only use human language correctly, but also in such a way that is appropriate for the social situation which they are in.
Diet
In captivity, they may be fed bird pellets, a variety of fruits such as pear, orange, pomegranate, apple, and banana, and vegetables such as carrot, cooked sweet potato, celery, fresh kale, peas, and green beans. They also need a source of calcium.
Disease
Grey parrots in captivity have been observed to be susceptible to fungal infections, bacterial infections, nutritional insufficiency, malignant tumors, psittacine beak and feather disease, tapeworms, and blood-worms. Young grey parrots are more commonly infected by psittacine beak and feather disease than adults. Infected birds show symptoms such as loss of appetite, fluffy feathers, sluggishness, and reduced walking abilities due to brittle bones.
Grey parrots are more likely to have rhinitis,[clarification needed] an inflammatory and infectious disease of the nasal cavity. Birds may exhibit signs like wheezing, sneezing, nasal snuffling, and swelling or occlusion of the nares. Treatment options include gentle debridement and nasal irrigation.
Intelligence and cognition
Grey parrots are highly intelligent and are considered by many to be one of the most intelligent species of psittacines. Many individuals have been shown to perform at the cognitive level of a four- to six-year-old human child in some tasks. Several studies have been conducted, indicating a suite of higher-level cognitive abilities. Experiments have shown that grey parrots can learn number sequences and can learn to associate human voices with the faces of the humans who create them. It has been reported that grey parrots are capable of using existing known English words to create new labels for objects when the bird does not know the name of the object. For example "banerry" ("banana" + "cherry") for "apple", "banana crackers" for "dried banana chips" or "yummy bread" for "cake".
The American scientist Irene Pepperberg's research with Alex the parrot showed his ability to learn more than 100 words, differentiating between objects, colours, materials and shapes. Pepperberg spent several decades working with Alex, and wrote numerous scientific papers on experiments performed, indicating his advanced cognitive abilities. One such study found that Alex had the ability to add numbers as well as having a zero-like concept, similar to that of young children and apes.
In addition to their striking cognitive abilities, grey parrots have displayed altruistic behavior and concern for others. Researchers found that while blue-headed macaws were unlikely to share a nut with other members of their own species, grey parrots would actively give their conspecific partner a nut, even if it meant that they would not be able to get one themselves. When the roles were reversed, their partners were overwhelmingly likely to return the favor, foregoing their own nut to their partner's benefits. This indicates not only a display of selflessness but also an act of reciprocity.
A 2012 study demonstrated that captive grey parrots have individual musical preferences. When presented with the opportunity to choose between two different pieces of music via a touch screen monitor located in their cage, the two birds in the test consistently chose different songs, to which they then danced and sang along. Some pet grey parrots have also been observed using the music feature of smart speakers (such as Alexa or Amazon Echo) to verbally request playback of specific favored songs.
Some research has shown that foot preference can be linked to the number of words a particular parrot may know and use. Researchers found that grey parrots who prefer to use their right foot showed a marked increase in the number of words within their lexicon as compared to parrots who were left-footed. Scientists postulate that parrots may have lateralization of brain function, much like mammals do.
In two murder trials, one in 1993 and another in 2017, there was consideration to use the deceased victim's pet grey parrot's "testimony" as evidence due to the pet parrot's witnessing and repeating the victim's last words. In the 1993 murder trial of Gary Joseph Rasp, the defendant was accused of murdering Jane Gill. Public defender Charles Ogulnik wanted to use Jane's pet grey parrot Max as evidence to prove Gary's innocence due to Max repeating Jane's last words "Richard, no, no, no!". In the 2017 murder trial of Glenna Duram, the defendant is accused of murdering her husband Martin Duram. The prosecutor was exploring the possibility of using the couple's pet parrot Bud as evidence when Bud kept repeating Martin's last words "Don't fucking shoot."
Mutations
Grey mutations occur naturally in the wild, such as the Blue Ino (albino), the Incomplete Ino, and the Blue varietals. The Blue Ino is all white. The Incomplete Ino has light pigmentation. The Blue has a white tail.
Breeders from South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Scandinavia have bred greys intensively since the 1800s. These bred varieties include the Red Pied, F2 Pied, Grizzles, Ino, Incomplete, Parino, Lutino, Cinnamon, and Red Factor. South African bird breeder Von van Antwerpen and New Zealand partner Jaco Bosman selected F2 Pieds and created the first Red Factor Greys. They are rare, may be predominantly red-pigmented, and vary in price depending upon the extent of the red plumage displayed.
History
The domestication of grey parrots has a history dating to 2000 B.C., depicting native birds in Egyptian hieroglyphics as pets. They were used for values by the Greeks and the Romans who kept them in birdcages. The grey parrots, due to recent years of illegal trading, have been classified as Endangered in 2016 by the IUCN Red List.
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The Sleight of Mind Set Workshops | MindSways - April 2013
SEEING THROUGH ILLUSIONS
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The Sleight of Mind Set Workshop is a one day, intimate learning experience where we will guide you through a number of principles. You'll learn the Principles of Mind Magic, the Framework of Mind Magic; we'll Explore Why and How Illusions Work, look at the role of MMI's (Multiple Moments of Interest, Interaction & Insight) and Thinking Fallacies. Most importantly though, you will Learn And Be Given a Number of Easy and Practical Tricks (with supporting materials) that you can take away with you and start performing and adding to your delivery the next day.
We wanted to make sure you'd get the best out of the one day experience, so we've packed months of one-to-one training sessions and years of our own experience into the day. The themes of the day are Innovation & Creativity, Practically Applied Advantage, Emotional Engagement, Show, Not Tell and the importance of Mystery, Magic and Surprise. For more information on the day, please see mindsways.com/SMS/ and for a brochure of what the day is about, please look at mindsways.com/SMS/#Brochure
TAPPING INTO POPULARITY
On the day we talk about the enduring allure and popularity that mystery, the paranormal and Mind Magic has. Magic is never far out of the popular sphere with Derren Brown filling theatres and drawing large TV audiences. Part of the popularity is down to the fact that it "May just be real". This is also shown by the new blockbuster film, Now You See Me.
This new film is based on the premise of what if the impossible was real. Starring Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Mark Ruffalo, Jesse Eisenberg and Isla Fisher, the film shows the hold that magic has over our imagination. It also gives us an insight into how popular magic is, and a fascinating glimpse into what it would be like to have real powers. To see more about the film, please go to mindsways.com/SMS/#NowYouSeeMe.
Today, to stand out we need the personal touch and the sleight of mind set workshop is about tapping into this popularity of mind magic and adding value through your delivery and the personal touch.
Our aim is to make day informative, entertaining and practical for you. People have attended for many reasons including:
Curiosity (just how was that done)
Learning something new
Interest in how the mind works
Adding variety to enliven their presentations
New and different approaches
Something to impress others with
An increased reputation
A channel for their passion and fascination
Wider perspectives and experiences
The real power of Mind Magic and Psychological Artistry lies not with just the tricks, but the effect that the delivery of the tricks have on people, tapping into the emotions of mystery combined with the personal touch and firing off the silent questions. On the workshops and in the SNT kit, we give you the tricks, however, learning to use them with what you do is where the real power lies.
By delivering these tricks, you can evoke the making of the extraordinary. By combining the tricks with the energy of your words, your message and your personality, you make yourself stand out, stimulate fascination and create interest in you. This is when the real magic happens, in the theatre of the minds.
In communications theory the saying "it's not us, its them" has great importance. Likewise in Psychological Artistry and in our Sleight of Mind Set workshops these take on a very important role. For more on this, please go to mindsways.com/SMS/
THE FEEDBACK - What People Say
The feedback from the workshops have been extremely positive, with people (from last weeks workshops) saying things like:
"It really was most enjoyable and enlightening"
"Fantastic day... a great eye opener!"
"Another great course, with plenty to think about and over"
The workshops have been enjoyed and shown to be beneficial to many people over the past year. The events have been attended and proved to be relevant to people from a wide range of backgrounds including entrepreneurs, business consultants, health professionals, coaches of life, performance and sports, therapists, hypnotherapists, trainers etc.
This is an unorthodox approach to understanding human behaviour, illustrating and promoting our messages, and this is where the real power lies. As Marty Neumeier says in ZAG " Be Different - NO Really Different". For more on what people say, please see mindsways.com/WPS/
THEATRE OF THE MIND - Tricks on 3 Levels
On the workshop we uncover tricks, look at making a trick into an effect and making the effect into a piece that works for you. The three levels we work on are:
Effect of a trick - triggers "how did you do that?"
Analysis of a trick - triggers "why does this trick work? Why does the effect happen?"
Practicality of a trick - explores how you can use the tricks
This involves using a combination of Psychology, Neuroscience, Smart Thinking and the ideas, tools and techniques from Mind Magic. The principles and lessons are useful in understanding our belief systems, how we think and act. It is in our minds that we experience emotions, thoughts and actions. These are in turn determined by the silent questions we ask ourselves.
We use Mind Magic effects as a reflection of how the mind works. We use the 3 levels above as a lens to increase our understanding how our minds control our actions, emotions and thoughts. It is through this that our minds tell us stories that justify our actions. For more on this, please see mindsways.com/SMS/
WHAT IS PSYCHOLOGICAL ARTISTRY?
Psychological Artistry is the blending of the science of how we think, and the combination of:
Creating connection, rapport and emotions
Telling stories
Gaining and holding attention
Producing insights
Displaying human nature
Cognition
Show, Not Tell
Multiple Moments of Interest, Interaction and Insights (MMI's)
to create a method for successful communication. Therefore, Psychological Artistry is where science and art meet Mind Magic.
THE WORKSHOPS
All the workshops start at 10:00 a.m. and finish at 4:30 p.m. These are being held around the country, in:
London | 2nd May 2013
Birmingham | 7th May 2013
Doncaster | 31st May 2013
Bath | 22nd June 2013
Glasgow | 2nd July 2013
To register your place on the Sleight of Mind Set, please go to mindsways.com/SMS#BookNow
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In the workshop, we will explore how Psychological Artistry and Mind Magic provide important insights into how we think, how we learn and how we experience the world, whilst training you in the tricks of the trade.
On the Sleight of Mind Set Workshop, you will get:
The SMS Pack :- The materials you need to perform the tricks we go through on the day
The SNT Kit :- The Show, Not Tell Kit. For more information on this, please go to mindsways.com/SNT/
The Presentation :- A copy of the presentation we use on the day for your reference
The eBook :- Access to written material on the tricks, including scripts and tips on performance
Follow-up Support :- Email and phone access to the trainers for further training or advice
To register your place on the Sleight of Mind Set Workshop, please go to mindsways.com/SMS
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P.S. The SNT kit is available separately. To see more, please go to mindsways.com/SNT/
P.P.S. The Fascination and The Fascination Pack is also available. For more, please see mindsways.com/the-fascinationand mindsways.com/TFP
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Mindless copying of sentences is not fun with handwriting. Nonetheless, to my amazement, it seems as though many primary schools in Hong Kong coerce their students into completing these cognition-effacing exercises.
If the objective of this book is to teach students to write letters, then logically, so long as a student can accurately reproduce each individual letter, there is no point in having them copy bunches of letters - words - within even greater bunches of letters - sentences - complete with capital letters and punctuation; so there must be another reason; and that students at this tender primary age must begin, sooner rather than later, the tedious rote learning process involving mindless copying and pedagogical dubiousness endemic to Hong Kong is my conjecture.
It's a shame that most Hong Kong primary school students aren't learning spelling strategies in English lessons - this is a Scholastic Book from the US - and instead are treated to beguiling calligraphy activities which treat English words as though they were Chinese pictograms, this whole-language English literacy approach being the absolute worst way to build a literacy base in a human being!
The transfer and multiplication of financial wealth, amongst the captains of educational publishing and the lieutenants of the education bureau, is not a conspiracy theory but a harmful, if not shameful, truth, a boy's father told me. He and his son both hate the skull-numbing reproduction of the Roman alphabet whose pedagogical value has yet to be substantiated by anyone!
I was very lucky to be invited along to this local teaching conference, and to hear the keynote talk from Prof. Susan Gathercole, head of the MRC Brain & Cognition Science Unit in Cambridge. She briefly introduced different kinds of memory, and then focused on working memory and child development, and the implications for the classroom. Excellent!
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Mokonzie demonstrates that body size does matter when trying to reach a goal by Nardie Hanson, postgraduate researcher in the School of Biosciences
In this photo Mokonzie an infant bonobo reaches toward an out-of-reach food goal. The goal represents a food resource in the canopy that requires complicated manipulation to get to the reward. It forms part of a study looking at how apes choose supports and plan routes during canopy locomotion. For large primates moving around the canopy environment is risky due to the possibility of falling and careful selection of supports (branches) and planning may be used to ensure efficient and safe travel. We provided bonobos, siamangs, and humans with a choice of two ropes to access a food reward. We manipulated the ropes’ distance from the goal, and flexibility and recorded which was selected in a route to the goal. We know apes select tools based on their suitability for a particular task, such as long flexible sticks for extracting termites from a termite mound. If apes are selecting supports during canopy travel in the same way, it could provide evidence for an understanding of physical properties (such as distance and rigidity) of supports. This is important in our understanding of how cognition (complex mental planning and processing) in primates evolved.
There were only 10 subjects and I did not manage to explain the test too well so three subject did *worse* in the first trial but there was successive proactive inhibition as the subjects were given memory tests on sets of three modes of transport as icons, and a release from proactive inhibition on the forth trial when that fourth trial used words as opposed to icons as used on the previous three trials.
That Westerners gain a release from proactive inhibition when they are shown a fourth trial with pictures, but not a fourth trial with words, following pictures, (Hopkins, et al. 1973) is due to the fact I believe that Westerners will chant (Vygoski) the words for the pictures that they are shown so showing pictures uses up their short term memory for words. Japanese however, as demonstrated by Kim (2002) do not speak to themselves when they are shown visual problems, so when the fourth trial is words (as above) then their short term memory for words is not proactively inhibited.
I also predict the reverse reversal, wherein Japanese will not experience a release from proactive interference when they are presented with a sequence of words to remember followed by pictures because when presented with words they will supply the pictures, "chanting" or rather imaginging, or flashing them to their internal-external other.
The Japanese Other is internal-external. It is inside the Japanese psyche but outside the Japanese head since it can see their face, and yet has X-ray eyes because it can see their imaginings, underwear, truck "madonna" and car interiors.
I wrote all the following before then deleted it by mistake. What follows (who cares!) is a rehash.
Ther are phenomenological or (proto?) physical limits to self deception.
The nexus, important-point, is deception.
But there are ways that one can decieve oneself that seem (to me now) to be governed by almost Kantian "proto-physical" or "phenomenological" imperatives.
There are physical, proto-physical, or phenomenological difference beteween eyes and ears: eyes can be seen but ears can not normally be heard because they do not make sounds.
There are therefore proto-physical, or phenomenological facts that limits the extent, and ways in which one can decieve oneself.
I can not deceive myself into thinking that I am seen from any other than an external view point. On the other hand, I can deceive myself into thiinking that I am heard from an internal ear-point.
Perhaps the grammatological (? of grammar) requirement that
there be a subject if there is an object is of the same order as the above.
Kim, H. (2002). We talk, therefore we think? A cultural analysis of the effect of talking on thinking. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Hopkins, R. H., Edwards, R. E., Tamayo, F. M. V., Holman, M. A., & Cook, C. L. (1973). Presentation modality and proactive interference in short-term retention using a mixed-morality distractor task. Memory & Cognition, 1(4), 439–442.
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Wickens, D. D. (1973). Some characteristics of word encoding. Memory & Cognition, 1(4), 485–490. Retrieved from link.springer.com/article/10.3758/BF03208913
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"eosphoro" (greco) phosphorus.
the chemical in lecithin (egg yolks) and most food.
ATP (adenosine triphosphate) is necssary for most life forms and for energy conversion.
Phosphate glows after the light source stops. it makes light last longer.
it has been used for fireworks and flares (fire and brimstone of hell).
"lucifer" means "bringer of light". ancient stories like "prometheus", warn of fire because of the terrible danger.
"light" also means knowledge or cognition.
some people are taught to fear intelligence, even to kill it.
in the myth, satan was fired from "heaven" by a jealous boss god, who represents an ego problem. some primitive persons control people by domination, submission, and violence, not by equality and intelligent free cooperation.
my idea is that to damn even satan to eternal suffering or to death was evil. life is short and only had once.
we do not want "gods" to have the power to cheat us of our time and our joy,
as we see them do.
eternal damnation is psychotic.
every person can know good and enjoy their short time here. it is our right.
caution: some people may lie about any thing.
good is not only what someone says is good. it is real.
release your self from evil in any form. save as many from it as you can. - james mcashan