Xref: utzoo sci.misc:2888 sci.psychology:1184 comp.ai:2804 comp.ai.neural-nets:362 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!apple!ems From: ems@Apple.COM (Mike Smith) Newsgroups: sci.misc,sci.psychology,comp.ai,comp.ai.neural-nets Subject: Re: Learned Behavior vs. Hard-Wired Behavior Message-ID: <292@internal.Apple.COM> Date: 7 Dec 88 00:00:16 GMT References: <1824@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> <208@logicon.arpa> <3768@hubcap.UUCP> Organization: Circle C Shellfish Ranch, Shores-of-the-Pacific Ca Lines: 11 >In article <208@logicon.arpa>, Makey@LOGICON.ARPA (Jeff Makey) writes: >> A behavior that I once thought existed in all human cultures was >> nodding ones head up and down to mean "yes" and shaking from side to >> side to mean "no." According to my girlfriend, who works for a >> company that does international trading, there is at least one place >> where this is not true. I don't remember exactly where it is (Asian >> continent, I think) but they nod for "no" and shake for "yes." Their >> word for "yes" even sounds like "nih", which would be taken for a "no" >> in many languages. The Japanese nod up&down for no... don't know how they pronounce it ...