Word: flombaum
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Other winners included Alexis G. Burgess ’02 and Tetsuro Onitsuka ’02 of Lowell House; Sue K. Paik ’02, Peter J. Chung ’02, Jonathan I. Flombaum ’02, Andrew Lynn ’02, Erik B. Sandegard ’02, Jillian R. Shulman ’02 and William Wailand ’02 of Cabot; Matthew A. Rojansky ’02 and Yuni Kim ’02 of Eliot House; and Christopher W. Cox ’02 of Kirkland House...
...which appears to be a uniquely human characteristic. Researchers in Hauser’s lab have studied several problems related to the question of what makes humans uniquely human, including ability to communicate and recognize numbers. Justin A. Junge ’03 assisted Jonathan I. Flombaum ’02, who wrote his thesis on the ability of rhesus monkeys to recognize numbers. “We found that primates can generally differentiate between one, two and three of something, but not between amounts greater than that,” Junge says. Junge and Flombaum, supervised by Hauser, figured...
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