Brain imaging, ethology, and the nonhuman mind
Posner & Raichle’s (1994) exciting, wonderfully illustrated book describes the past successes and future potential of the relatively noninvasive imaging of the nervous systems of
Posner & Raichle’s (1994) exciting, wonderfully illustrated book describes the past successes and future potential of the relatively noninvasive imaging of the nervous systems of
First paragraph of commentary: Longstanding controversies on the function and evolution of play have been clarified and partially resolved in Peter Smith’s stimulating paper. My
Characterizing behavior in any organism as play, including in humans, has often been controversial. Intuitive understandings of what constitutes ‘play’ are often difficult to describe
Why animals play has been a perennial question, but most of the thinking about this has been framed in terms of its fitness benefits. A
What factors in animal life history facilitate or reduce the probability that a species will perform play behavior? While some relationships are known within species
Object play occurs in diverse animals in addition to birds and mammals. Although many carnivores engage in object play in a predatory context, many non-predators
Although social behavior in vertebrates spans a continuum from solitary to highly social, taxa are often dichotomized as either ‘social’ or ‘non-social’. We argue that
My initial response to the question posed to me is that the state of play, as a scientific field, is actually pretty healthy. By this I
