Rats know when they forget stuff

• Autores: Diana Crow
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3135, 2017, pág. 12
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Much like students doing a test, rats tend to skip questions when they have forgotten the answer. The finding suggests rats share an ability of humans and some primates - they may have metamemory, an awareness of what they can remember. Victoria Templer at Providence College, Rhode Island, and her team trained rats to sniff samples of cinnamon, thyme, paprika or coffee, and then go to a dish smelling of the matching scent. If the rats picked the correct dish, they got a piece of cereal