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Animal metaphors are extremely powerful communication tools because they are automatically processed, focus on entities to which we preferentially attend, and tap into the wealth of thematic and literary universals that drive narratives.

In social species such as humans, the presence of stored information about danger in the minds of conspecifics might favor the evolution of prepared social learning mechanisms that cause children to preferentially attend to and remember culturally transmitted information about danger.

In addition, Heisenberg et al. (2001) have reported the phenomenon of 'selective attention' in flies, with tethered Drosophila able to preferentially attend to one of two competing stimuli [34].

Thus, our paradigm addressed whether monkeys would preferentially attend to the dynamic face that was approximately matched in size to the coo call that simulated that body size.

Although overall prevalence of gonorrhea in STD clinics is not representative of the overall population because STD clinic attendees are generally at higher risk, those infected with gonococcal infections with lower (or greater) antimicrobial drug susceptibility are unlikely to preferentially attend these clinics.

In the present context, we tested whether our monkey subjects would preferentially attend to a video display showing a large, older monkey (sexually mature, 13-yr-old) versus a small, younger monkey (juvenile, 6-yr-old) producing a coo vocalization when they heard a coo produced from a simulated long vocal tract, and vice versa.

All events (except non-hospital deaths) were preferentially attended at the Heart Institute [9], [10], [11].

In situations where sufficient light enables both visual and acoustic orientation, conflicting information between the two modalities can result in captive bats preferentially attending to visual cues.

The greater the attentional imbalance between the two locations, the more closely the perceived trajectory midpoint approaches the preferentially attended location (see Materials and Methods).

Furthermore, secondary spindle afferents appear to be relatively insensitive to vibration.[ 15] The central nervous system could have preferentially attended to these signals for information regarding performance.

Nineteen out of twenty-four monkeys in the present experiment preferentially attended to the dynamic face that best matched the body size simulated by the coo vocalization played through the speaker.