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Article: When looking sheepish counts as smart. (research on how areas of sheep's brain respond to pictures of different species)
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- Science News
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- May 16, 1987
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When looking sheepish counts as smarts
What would happen if you met a sheep face-to-face in a darkalley, or a darkened room? More important, which area of the sheep's brain would respond? A British study, in which sheep were hung in slings in darkened rooms before a projector screen, tested the responses in the animals' brains to pictures of both friendly and menacing faces of a variety of species.
Scientists at the AFRC Institute of Animal Physiology andGenetics Research in Cambridge took counting sheep a step beyond the usual: They measured the electrical impulses given off by different areas of sheeps' brains when exposed to different visual stimuli. ...
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