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Even rats can imagine and reason!
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Rats have the ability to link cause and effect such that they can expect, or imagine, something happening even if it isn\'t, reveals a new study. The recent study draws from long-understood ideas that when a rat (or dog or pigeon) observes one event followed by another, such as a tone followed by food, it forms an association between the events. After the association is formed, whenever the rat hears the tone, it expects food to follow.
New York: Rats have the ability to link cause and effect such that they can expect, or imagine, something happening even if it isn't, reveals a new study. The recent study draws from long-understood ideas that when a rat (or dog or pigeon) observes one event followed by another, such as a tone followed by food, it forms an association between the events. After the association is formed, whenever the rat hears the tone, it expects food to follow. The researchers found that once rats observe two events together, it not only forms an association but also an expectation.
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