...In a study published Thursday in the journal Science, ... researchers tested rodent imaginations using brain-machine interfaces and a virtual reality environment. Through tasks requiring the rats to essentially jump to a location or move an object with the power of their thoughts (yes, just like a Jedi), the scientists found, by analyzing the animal’s brain activity, that the rodents do appear capable of thinking about specific locations on purpose. They also can hold those thoughts for about the same time scale — on the order of seconds — as human imagination.
“It’s a great finding,” Mayank Mehta, a professor of neurology and neurobiology at the University of California, Los Angeles, tells Inverse, adding more nuance to our understanding of how other animals are capable of a cognitive power we humans may take for granted. READ MORE FROM INVERSE
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