Animal cognition research offers outreach opportunity
by John Carey
In a classroom in Thailand, groups of elementary school children are marching around large sheets of newspaper on the floor. Music plays. Each group of five kids has a newspaper sheet. When the music stops, the children rush to stand on their sheet. The first time, there’s room for all. As music starts and stops, though, the teacher makes the newspaper sheet smaller and smaller. Eventually, five pairs of feet can no longer fit on the sheet. Some of the children climb on their partners, cramming their bodies together before…
