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Recreational Trails Reduce the Density of Ground-Dwelling Birds in Protected Areas by Thompson, Bill

“…Recreational disturbance associated with trails has been identified as one of the major factors causing a decline of native biodiversity within protected…”
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Culture shapes the evolution of cognition by Thompson, Bill, Kirby, Simon, Smith, Kenny

“…A central debate in cognitive science concerns the nativist hypothesis, the proposal that universal features of behavior reflect a biologically determined…”
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Human biases limit cumulative innovation by Thompson, Bill, Griffiths, Thomas L

“…Is technological advancement constrained by biases in human cognition? People in all societies build on discoveries inherited from previous generations,…”
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Iterated learning reveals stereotypes of facial trustworthiness that propagate in the absence of evidence by Uddenberg, Stefan, Thompson, Bill D., Vlasceanu, Madalina, Griffiths, Thomas L., Todorov, Alexander

“…When we look at someone's face, we rapidly and automatically form robust impressions of how trustworthy they appear. Yet while people's impressions of…”
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Iconicity in Signed and Spoken Vocabulary: A Comparison Between American Sign Language, British Sign Language, English, and Spanish by Perlman, Marcus, Little, Hannah, Thompson, Bill, Thompson, Robin L

“…Considerable evidence now shows that all languages, signed and spoken, exhibit a significant amount of iconicity. We examined how the visual-gestural modality…”
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How do Humans Overcome Individual Computational Limitations by Working Together? by Vélez, Natalia, Christian, Brian, Hardy, Mathew, Thompson, Bill D., Griffiths, Thomas L.

“…Since the cognitive revolution, psychologists have developed formal theories of cognition by thinking about the mind as a computer. However, this metaphor is…”
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Evolving building blocks of rhythm: how human cognition creates music via cultural transmission by Ravignani, Andrea, Thompson, Bill, Grossi, Thomas, Delgado, Tania, Kirby, Simon

“…Why does musical rhythm have the structure it does? Musical rhythm, in all its cross‐cultural diversity, exhibits commonalities across world cultures…”
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The Evolution of Musicality: What Can Be Learned from Language Evolution Research? by Ravignani, Andrea, Thompson, Bill, Filippi, Piera

“…Language and music share many commonalities, both as natural phenomena and as subjects of intellectual inquiry. Rather than exhaustively reviewing these…”
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Seeking Temporal Predictability in Speech: Comparing Statistical Approaches on 18 World Languages by Jadoul, Yannick, Ravignani, Andrea, Thompson, Bill, Filippi, Piera, de Boer, Bart

“…Temporal regularities in speech, such as interdependencies in the timing of speech events, are thought to scaffold early acquisition of the building blocks in…”
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The open library and its enemies by Thompson, Bill

“…In the age of electronics an open society – one in which questions can be asked, where critical thinking is not just permitted but encouraged and where…”
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Retrofit ecopassages effectively reduce freshwater turtle road mortality in the Lake Simcoe Watershed by Read, Kaitlyn D., Thompson, Bill

“…Although the negative impacts of roads on herpetiles are well documented, broad‐scale implementation of effective mitigation measures to address these impacts…”
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Planning for Implementation: Landscape-Level Restoration Planning in an Agricultural Setting by Thompson, Bill A

“…The conservation of biodiversity in highly fragmented landscapes often requires large-scale habitat restoration in addition to traditional biological…”
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Why Do Durations in Musical Rhythms Conform to Small Integer Ratios? by Ravignani, Andrea, Thompson, Bill, Lumaca, Massimo, Grube, Manon

“…One curious aspect of human timing is the organization of rhythmic patterns in small integer ratios. Behavioral and neural research has shown that adjacent…”
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Resampling reduces bias amplification in experimental social networks by Hardy, Mathew D., Thompson, Bill D., Krafft, P. M., Griffiths, Thomas L.

“…Large-scale social networks are thought to contribute to polarization by amplifying people’s biases. However, the complexity of these technologies makes it…”
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Proinflammatory isoforms of IL-32 as novel and robust biomarkers for control failure in HIV-infected slow progressors by El-Far, Mohamed, Kouassi, Pascale, Sylla, Mohamed, Zhang, Yuwei, Fouda, Ahmed, Fabre, Thomas, Goulet, Jean-Philippe, van Grevenynghe, Julien, Lee, Terry, Singer, Joel, Harris, Marianne, Baril, Jean-Guy, Trottier, Benoit, Ancuta, Petronela, Routy, Jean-Pierre, Bernard, Nicole, Tremblay, Cécile L.

“…HIV-infected slow progressors (SP) represent a heterogeneous group of subjects who spontaneously control HIV infection without treatment for several years…”
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An ever-evolving mind by Thompson, Bill

“…Experimental evolution of human cognition helps us understand ourselves In 1887, in an upstairs room in a secondary school in Sheffield, England, a fire broke…”
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Sexual Dichotomy of an Interaction between Early Adversity and the Serotonin Transporter Gene Promoter Variant in Rhesus Macaques by Barr, Christina S., Newman, Timothy K., Schwandt, Melanie, Shannon, Courtney, Dvoskin, Rachel L., Lindell, Stephen G., Taubman, Julie, Thompson, Bill, Champoux, Maribeth, Lesch, Klaus Peter, Goldman, David, Suomi, Stephen J., Higley, J. Dee, Thompson, Richard F.

“…A polymorphism in the human serotonin transporter gene promoter (5-HTTLPR) is associated with anxiety and increased risk for developing depression in the face…”
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Introducing Parselmouth: A Python interface to Praat by Jadoul, Yannick, Thompson, Bill, de Boer, Bart

“…•Parselmouth makes Praat functionality available in Python.•This allows usage of sophisticated acoustic analyses in this programming language.•We provide…”
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Uniforms, equipment, weapons and related objects: The Colt Model 1860 Army Revolver by Thompson, Bill

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Hidden Differences in Phenomenal Experience by Lupyan, Gary, Uchiyama, Ryutaro, Thompson, Bill, Casasanto, Daniel

“…In addition to the many easily observable differences between people, there are also differences in people's subjective experiences that are harder to observe,…”
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