Even Rats can Expect, Imagine and Reason!

A new study reveals that rats have the ability to link cause and effect such that they can expect, or imagine, something happening even if it isn't. The findings are important to understanding human reasoning, especially in older adults, as ageing degrades the ability to maintain information about unobserved events, the researchers said. The recent study draws from long-understood ideas that when a rat (or dog or pigeon) observes one event followed ...