Re: Bird Brains

[Darryl Jones <dinoguy@interlog.com>]

At 07:48 PM 1/3/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Then he displayed object permanence: when an object is hidden, he
>searches for it. Very young children and most animals do not have that
>ability, when an object is removed from view they forget about it.

A quick point on this.  There is recent research showing that at least in
young children, the problem is not object permanence, it is attention span.
 This may be true for many animals.  It is not that they no longer believe
the object exists, it is that they have ceased to care.

 
 
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