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...cognitive scientist Josef Topál of the Research Institute for Psychology in Hungary recently ran an experiment to study how 10-month-old babies pay attention to people. The scientists put a toy under one of two cups and then let the children choose which cup to pick up. The children, of course, picked the right cup--no surprise since they saw the toy being hidden. Topál and his colleagues repeated the trial several times, always hiding the toy under the same cup, until finally they hid it under the other one. Despite the evidence of their eyes...
...investigate why the kids made this counterintuitive mistake, the scientists rigged the cups to wires and then lowered them over the toy. Without the distraction of a human being, the babies were far more likely to pick the right cup. Small children, it seems, are hardwired to pay such close attention to people that they disregard their other observations. Topál and his colleagues ran the same experiment on dogs--and the results were the same. When they administered the test to wolves, however, the animals did not make the mistake the babies and dogs did. They relied on their...
...Kalle Norberg, even though the result didn’t go the Crimson’s way. After taking a close first set, Chijoff-Evans dropped the second set, 6-1, and then lost a heartbreaker, 7-5. The close contest showed that the unanimous All-Ivy first-team pick in singles from last season still had some work to do but could keep up with a difficult adversary. “Top guys played very well and Alexei almost took Norberg from Ole Miss,†said Omodele-Lucien. “So it’s good...
FlyBy noticed that the Harvard Hotline is a toll free number, not one of the 617-495-xxxx numbers typical of Harvard, so we were interested to see who would pick up our call...
...automated male voice directed us to check out harvard.edu/h1n1 for information about the University's swine flu policies. If that didn't help, we were given five choices to pick from based...