Cognitive flexibility is similar to functional fixedness, which refers to an impaired ability to discover a new use for an object. Cognitive flexibility, however, is usually defined as the ability to ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Eitha, a little Himba boy stands outside the ekraal, his homestead, while goats are being chased out to graze for the day.Credit: AAP We ...
Epupa Falls — Asking the local Himba people where on the Cunene River in northern Namibia they would choose to site a hydroelectric dam "is like asking me which of my three children do you want me to ...
Sarah Pope drives to work every day. It takes the cognitive neuroscientist 10 minutes to get to her lab at the University of Texas at Austin, and 10 minutes to get back home. She thought it was the ...
Continent-wide in African folklore the hyena is depicted as a dull witted, easily duped creature-despite the fact that the hyena is also known as a cunning and dangerous predator. This article ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...
Having survived genocide by German troops, external in the 1900s, Namibia's Himba people are now facing a bigger threat to their way of life - encroaching modernity. Little has changed in Omuhoro ...
When David Attenborough met the lost Biami tribe of Papua New Guinea in 1967 he relied on a warm smile and a few simple hand gestures to discover what they had in common. The remarkable, unscripted ...
Non-timber forest product (NTFP) commercialisation can have both detrimental and positive effects on the livelihoods of indigenous peoples yet there is a paucity of empirical studies from which to ...
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