A nominee for an ignoble award if I ever saw one :) Annette
Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 619-260-4006 [email protected] ---- Original message ---- >Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:08:32 -0400 >From: [email protected] >Subject: [tips] Dead salmon detects human emotion >To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <[email protected]> > >Remarkable new experiment, a fMRI study by Bennett et al >reported at the 15th annual meeting of the Organization for >Brain Mapping in June this year in San Francisco. > >Meeting announcement at >http://www.meetingassistant3.com/OHBM2009/index.php > >From the Methods section of the abstract: > >Subject: One mature Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) participated >in the fMR study. The salmon was...not alive at the time of >scanning. > >Task: The task administered to the salmon involved completing >an open-ended mentalizing task. The salmon was shown a >series of photographs depicting human individuals in social >situations with a specified emotional valence. The salmon was >asked to determine what emotion the individual in the photo >must have been experiencing. > >http://prefrontal.org/files/posters/Bennett-Salmon-2009.jpg >for the abstract of the poster presentation (the poster itself, >actually) > >And if that doesn't make itself clear, try this: >http://tinyurl.com/mww9tj > > >Stephen > >----------------------------------------------------------------- >Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. >Professor of Psychology, Emeritus >Bishop's University > e-mail: [email protected] >2600 College St. >Sherbrooke QC J1M 1Z7 >Canada >----------------------------------------------------------------------- > >--- >To make changes to your subscription contact: > >Bill Southerly ([email protected]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
