Mice have cognitive thinking skills!

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http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/319/5871/1849

According to a study, rats are able to apply vague analogical thinking and by having learned the rules by which to follow. Mice are basically at the stage were they are as just as competent in forming thoughts as much as humans in the early stage of development! Mice have abstract thinking.


Using rules extracted from experience to solve problems in novel situations involves cognitions such as analogical reasoning and language learning and is considered a keystone of humans' unique abilities. Nonprimates, it has been argued, lack such rule transfer. We report that Rattus norvegicus can learn simple rules and apply them to new situations. Rats learned that sequences of stimuli consistent with a rule (such as XYX) were different from other sequences (such as XXY or YXX). When novel stimuli were used to construct sequences that did or did not obey the previously learned rule, rats transferred their learning. Therefore, rats, like humans, can transfer structural knowledge from sequential experiences.
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Does that mean that mice can now apply thermodynamical equations to build rockets into space? :bugeye:

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I did an experiment with mice cognitive thinking for my 6th grade science project. Everyone thought I was crazy, but the test showed it to be true!
 
Does that mean that mice can now apply thermodynamical equations to build rockets into space?
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Ever read The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy? Well if you had you would have already known that they did! :D
 
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