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Behavior
Play May Be a Deeper Part of Human Nature Than We Thought
An animal study brings us closer to understanding our own behavior
Francisco Luongo is a neuroscientist and Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow at Caltech. His research is focused on dissecting neural circuit mechanisms underlying object segmentation.
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