LEADER 03975nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910808413803321 005 20211209031603.0 010 $a0-674-07156-5 010 $a0-674-06722-3 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674067226 035 $a(CKB)2670000000234198 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH24437905 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000720338 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11477596 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000720338 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10669174 035 $a(PQKB)10878940 035 $a(DE-B1597)178060 035 $a(OCoLC)835788701 035 $a(OCoLC)979832583 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674067226 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301119 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10591019 035 $a(OCoLC)923119629 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301119 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000234198 100 $a20120321d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCurious behavior$b[electronic resource] $eyawning, laughing, hiccupping, and beyond /$fRobert R. Provine 210 $aCambridge, MA $cBelknap Press of Harvard University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (vii, 271 pages )$cillustrations (black and white) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-674-04851-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tcontents --$tintroduction --$t1 yawning --$t2 laughing --$t3 vocal crying --$t4 emotional tearing --$t5 whites of the eyes --$t6 coughing --$t7 sneezing --$t8 hiccupping --$t9 vomiting and nausea --$t10 tickling --$t11 itching and scratching --$t12 farting and belching --$t13 prenatal behavior --$tAPPENDIX: the behavioral keyboard --$tnotes --$treferences --$tacknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aRobert Provine boldly goes where other scientists seldom tread-in search of hiccups, coughs, yawns, sneezes, and other lowly, undignified human behaviors. Upon investigation, these instinctive acts bear the imprint of our evolutionary origins and can be uniquely valuable tools for understanding how the human brain works and what makes us different from other species. Many activities showcased in Curious Behavior are contagious, but none surpasses yawning in this regard-just reading the word can make one succumb. Though we often take it as a sign of sleepiness or boredom, yawning holds clues to the development of our sociality and ability to empathize with others. Its inescapable transmission reminds us that we are sometimes unaware, neurologically programmed beasts of the herd. Other neglected behaviors yield similar revelations. Tickling, we learn, may be the key to programming personhood into robots. Coughing comes in musical, medical, and social varieties. Farting and belching have import for the evolution of human speech. And prenatal behavior is offered as the strangest exhibit of all, defying postnatal logic in every way. Our earthiest acts define Homo sapiens as much as language, bipedalism, tool use, and other more studied characteristics. As Provine guides us through peculiarities right under our noses, he beckons us to follow with self-experiments: tickling our own feet, keeping a log of when we laugh, and attempting to suppress yawns and sneezes. Such humble investigations provide fodder for grade school science projects as well as doctoral dissertations. Small Science can yield big rewards. 606 $aHuman behavior 606 $aHuman biology 606 $aNeuropsychology 606 $aEvolutionary psychology 615 0$aHuman behavior. 615 0$aHuman biology. 615 0$aNeuropsychology. 615 0$aEvolutionary psychology. 676 $a152.3/2 700 $aProvine$b Robert R$01605537 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808413803321 996 $aCurious behavior$93930827 997 $aUNINA