SOME EXPERIMENTS ON ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE

Animal Pattern-Learning Experiments: Some Mathematical Background∗

A number of recent studies on the learning of invented patterns in symbol sequences by animals such as cottontop tamarins (Hauser, Chomsky & Fitch 2002:1578; Fitch & Hauser 2004; Hauser 2005; O’Donnell, Hauser & Fitch 2005), songbirds (Gentner 2005), and undergraduates (Fitch & Hauser 2004; Perruchet & Rey, in press) have shown interest in the contrast between two classes of sets of strings: th...

New thinking on animal experiments

National regulations on animal experiments vary widely between countries but growing numbers of researchers in Britain believe that the procedures are in need of an overhaul. And a new report by a group of members of Britain’s upper house of parliament, the House of Lords, advises a shakeup that both speeds up consideration of researchers’ requests but opens up public scrutiny of such work. The...

Some Randomness Experiments on TRIVIUM

This paper develops two methods for exploring the structure of the stream cipher TRIVIUM. We consider whether it is possible to compute the algebraic normal form (ANF) of such functions. Since the key and the IV together make up 160 variables, doing this directly is not possible. Instead, one can choose a subset of the key and IV variables of size n and fix the other variables to constants. As ...

EU statistics on animal experiments for 2014.

P119: Animal Models of Epilepsy: The Impact of some Chemoconvalsants on Animal Models

We summarize some of the most frequenthly used rodent animal models of temporal lobe epileps and the impact of chemoconvulsants on them. Temporal lobe epilepsy is the most common epilepsy in humans in which seizures spread to the neighboring cortiase and hippocampal neuron loss and other neuropathological take place. Temporal lobe epilepsy and the other form of epilepsy cannot acquired in chini...