Nature Neuroscience 9, 472 - 474 (2006)
doi:10.1038/nn0406-472
Rational ratsNicola Clayton
& Anthony Dickinson
Nicola Clayton and Tony Dickinson are in the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EB, UK. nsc22@cam.ac.uk
Traditional learning theory suggests that animals do not understand that actions cause their consequences. A new paper uses sophisticated behavioral experiments to conclude that rats are capable of causal reasoning.
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