Experimentación animal

La doctrina y el laboratorio: fisiología y experimentación en la sociedad española del siglo XIX

Vivian Nutton, in the first chapter, wrote a 43 page essay on the social history of medicine in ancient Greece and Rome that is the best introduction to this vast topic I have seen. Katharine Park's description of medicine and society in medieval Europe, a society more diverse than our own, she claims, tells us about a universe of disease and the various attempts to cope with the effects of suc...

Especificación Metodológica de la Implementación y Desarrollo de Entornos de Experimentación

In engineering grades, the accomplishment of experimental practices is limited to a real presence in the laboratory installations. Nevertheless, the development of remote environments has facilitated the use of experimental equipment outside the laboratory, avoiding the spatial and temporary barriers. There are so many initiatives that provides real interaction with the laboratory equipment, bu...

Animal communication, animal minds, and animal language

The communication systems of nonhuman animals are reviewed, together with a discussion of their relevance for the evolution of human language. The teaching of language to nonhumans, as well as signs of mind and consciousness outside our species, are considered as possible bridges between us and the rest of the animal kingdom.

Animal Mycoplasmosis in Iran

Animal cognition and animal behaviour

Cognitive processes such as perception, learning, memory and decision making play an important role in mate choice, foraging and many other behaviours. In this review, I summarize a few key ideas about animal cognition developed in a recent book (Shettleworth 1998, Cognition, Evolution and Behaviour) and briefly review some areas in which interdisciplinary research on animal cognition is curren...