Candy Rowe

TL;DR: Psychological results that support the notion that two components are better received than one alone are presented, and it is shown that multicomponency does indeed improve signal reception in receivers, although the benefits of producing components in two sensory modalities may be larger and more robust than producing them in just one.

TL;DR: This map reveals that the global number of trees is approximately 3.04 trillion, an order of magnitude higher than the previous estimate, and the globalNumber of trees has fallen by approximately 46% since the start of human civilization.

TL;DR: There are a number of substantial problems with some of the assumptions that underpin the hypotheses that explain variation in whole brain size in a range of vertebrate species, pointing out that now is the time to substantiate these results with data from experimental manipulations.

TL;DR: The take-home message is that variability in performance in cognitive tasks does not necessarily demonstrate individual variation in cognitive ability, and that the authors need to both design more stringent cognitive tests and be more cautious in their interpretation.

TL;DR: This study demonstrates, in prey choice experiments with birds, that pyrazine interacts with red and yellow to induce strong aversions to these aposematic colours that are not shown in the absence of the odour.