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When you are asked to think of a zoo animal, how does your mind choose what pops into your consciousness? Jim Davies reports in <\/span>Nautilus<\/span><\/i> magazine about a study suggesting that it is done by weighting certain features in a multi-dimensional feature space. In this case, people tend to call to mind striking, dangerous, large animals. <\/span><\/p>\n

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