They worked with mice, rats, fish, turtles, cats, and pigeons, then moved on to monkeys, children, and brain-damaged adults.
I bet they think I'm crazy: "Who's the weird lady in the minivan who keeps grinning and waving at me - -holy cow, are those monkeys jumping around that van?" That would be me, your eccentric local writer (and my crazy part-monkey children).
Highlights of this lively eight-artist show include Carl D'Alvia's bionic monkey and child; Jeff Sonhouses' masklike face finely painted in watercolor with an Afro of real burned matches; Tricia Keightly's neo-Art Nouveau abstract painting; a comical, quirkily detailed landscape painted by Johan Nobell; and, by Jennifer Sirey, a wobbly, pyramidal tower of glass boxes with moldy interiors (Johnson).
You wouldn't want your Super Bowl love child to look like a "Puppy Monkey Baby".
Instead of plummeting down slides or dangling from the monkey bars, children on Saturday built polyethylene palaces from blocks shaped like triangles, clovers, rectangles and cylinders.
In the "Monkey" course, children balanced on a beam, passed under a tunnel, got up and jumped from a case (height of the first step of the stairs).
But four adults and two small monkey-nimble children will fit just fine.
(Apes and monkeys, like children, though clearly intelligent and capable of forethought and planning, are relatively lacking in frontal lobes, and tend to do the first thing that occurs to them, rather than pausing to reflect. Such impulsivity can be striking in patients with frontal-lobe damage).
This non-linear numerical mapping of estimates is quite general and depends on no training: it has been observed in monkeys, young children and adults with low training in mathematics and situations where we rely on intuitive estimations rather than learned numeracy.
This paper reports lead-induced changes in neuropsychological measures and behavioral performance measures in monkeys and children.
