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Podcast: TudoRama
Episode: Of Mice and Men. The Imagination capacities of Rodents and Chess Masters
Description: Send us Fan MailAn article captured my attention recently: ‘Rat race: rodents use imagination to navigate their environment’.The article in the Guardian, Friday third November, 2023, reported findings from a research study from the Howard Hughes medical Institute, Maryland, USA. The researchers claimed that the study is the first to show animals can flexibly activate the brain’s representations of places distant from its current location. The technicalities of the research follows classic rat- based studies in which the rodents were monitored for learning skills. In this case the skills...