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Females manipulate behavior of caring males via prenatal maternal effects

Matthieu PAQUET Former Fyssen 2014 and Per T. SMISETH PNAS 2017 ; published ahead of print June 12, 2017 In species with biparental care, there is sexual conflict as each parent is under selection to minimize its personal effort by shifting as much as possible of the workload over to the other parent.Most theoretical and […]

Reduced sensitivity to social priors during action prediction in adults with autism spectrum disorders

Valérian CHAMBON Former Fyssen 2009 – 2010 & Research Grant holder 2014 Article publié dans Cognition 160 (2017) 17–26 Abstract: « An extensive amount of evidence has documented a diminished ability to predict and understand other people’s action in individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Recently, two theoretical accounts, the ‘‘Hypo-priors” and the ‘‘Aberrant precision” hypotheses, […]