Of Sex, Celebrity, and Macaque Monkeys

[Brownian Motion]

Monkey "Pay-Per-View" Study Could Aid Understanding Of Autism

DURHAM, N.C. -- Researches have found that monkeys will "pay" juice rewards to see images of high-ranking monkeys or female hindquarters. They say their research technique offers a rigorous laboratory approach to studying the "social machinery" of the brain and how this machinery goes tragically awry in autism -- a disease that afflicts more than a million Americans and is the fastest growing developmental disorder.

In an article published early online by the journal Current Biology, Duke University Medical Center neurobiologists Michael Platt, Robert Deaner and Amit Khera describe experiments in which they gave male rhesus macaque monkeys juice rewards for glancing at either a neutral target on a computer screen or images of other monkeys. By systematically varying the juice rewards and the images -- including a gray square, higher-ranking or lower-ranking monkeys and female hindquarters -- the researchers could precisely measure how much reward a monkey would "pay" to see which images.

The researchers found that the monkeys would forego a significant amount of reward to see an image of a higher-ranking monkey or of female hindquarters. In contrast, the monkeys had to be "paid" more juice to view lower-ranking monkeys.

http://www.primates.com/monkeys/brain.html

[Man with the Golden Arm]

The researchers found that the monkeys would forego a significant amount of reward to see an image of a higher-ranking monkey or of female hindquarters. In contrast, the monkeys had to be "paid" more juice to view lower-ranking monkeys.

So Davey Jones is in and Peter Tork is out!?

[DTMX]

Monkey "Pay-Per-View" Study Could Aid Understanding Of Autism

DURHAM, N.C. -- Researches have found that monkeys will "pay" juice rewards to see images of high-ranking monkeys or female hindquarters.

I don't think it explains anything about autism. It just explains why people on the internet tend to gravitate towards celebrities and porn.

High-ranking monkeys:

[Jim Alfredson]

High ranking monkey:

[Johnny E]

female hindquarters

[jazzbo]

[Jazzmoose]

What about salty snack food? And do they post on internet jazz sites?

[JSngry]

Spanking the monkey just got a lot less stigmatized.

[Ron S]

Spanking the monkey just got a lot less stigmatized.

Funny thing is, that's a photo Lon took of himself.

[Chuck Nessa]

Spanking the monkey just got a lot less stigmatized.

Funny thing is, that's a photo Lon took of himself.

He has underwear with his picture on it?

[Ron S]

Spanking the monkey just got a lot less stigmatized.

Funny thing is, that's a photo Lon took of himself.

He has underwear with his picture on it?

It makes it easier at the laundromat.

[JSngry]

[Jazzmoose]

As Lon would say,

[Ron S]

Or, as Lon now would say,

[jazzbo]

I'm way too juice dehydrated to say much of anything. . . .