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Studies of how rats and ants rescue other members of their species do not prove that animals other than humans have empathy, according to biologists. 
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Nerve cells from the brain’s emotion hub talk directly to a region that doles out attention, a study of monkeys shows. The connection, described in the April 11 Journal of Neuroscience, may help explain how people automatically focus on emotional events. Articles about NEUROSCIENCE: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=neuroscience
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Can animals' survival instincts shed additional light on what we know about human emotion?
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Provocative experiments suggest that insects have something resembling emotions...
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Looking at long-held owner beliefs, a study suggests that dogs comforted crying strangers in ways similar to human infants.
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LeDoux writes: “Consciousness and feelings are topics that are best studied in humans. Research on the neural basis of feelings in humans is in its infancy. We will never know what an animal feels. But if we can find neural correlates of conscious feelings in humans (and distinguish them from correlates of unconscious emotional computations in survival circuits), and show that similar correlates exists in homologous brain regions in animals, then some basis for speculating about animal feelings and their nature would exist.” Articles about NEUROSCIENCE: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?page=1&tag=neuroscience
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The new evidence shows that the sex hormones – testosterone, estrogen, and progesterone – act in a key region of the brain, switching certain genes on and others off.
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