Confirmation bias is the tendency to search selectively for evidence or information that confirms what one already believes.
To search selectively for defects in cholinergic neurons, including motor neurons, we examined Fz3 −/− embryos that carried a ChAT-IRES-Cre knock-in allele and a Cre-controlled alkaline phosphatase (AP) reporter, R26iAP (Badea et al., 2009).
Across the course of training, mice found the platform with decreasing latency (Supplementary Fig. 1a) and, in a probe test conducted at training completion, searched selectively in the region of the pool that formerly contained the platform (Supplementary Fig. 1b).
Six5−/−, Dmpk−/− and Mbnl1−/− mutant mice showed normal spatial learning and memory, searching selectively for the platform (Figure 5A, B, and C respectively).
This scheme of swarm-based intelligence, which is based on the foraging behavior of honey bees, optimizes the search process selectively hunting for more promising honey sources and scans a sizeable area in a more comprehensive manner.
Based on the aforementioned analysis, we propose a fast disparity estimation algorithm in which a disparity search is selectively enabled.
Using this delay we observed forgetting, with TK− mice searching less selectively in the probe test conducted at the end of the retention delay (Fig. 2b,c).
Critically, genetic suppression of hippocampal neurogenesis (Fig. 2f,g) in the post-training window attenuated this forgetting, with vanganciclovir-treated TK+ mice searching more selectively compared with vanganciclovir-treated TK− mice (Fig. 2b,c).
We searched PubMed, the Cochrane Methodology Register and selectively searched for the published policies of several organizations, We did not conduct systematic reviews ourselves.
In a pair of papers published in the journal Nature Communications, the researchers show that they can attach a drug to an antibody called anti-CD117 that can selectively search out and eliminate blood-producing stem cells in mice.
Highly intelligent people can think of rationalizations for their beliefs in situations in which the less intelligent would be forced to give up and concede error, and highly educated people have larger stores of information from which to selectively search for information supporting a desired belief.
