Here’s a female rat whisking in slow-motion… quite incredible!

#Whisking #RatBehaviour #NeuroRat #WhiskersWednesday
Credit: R.M.Grieves
Edit: added new hashtag
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Ooh this seems very interesting:
Lost in time: Relocating the perception of duration outside the brain by #RobbeLab (not on here right?)
#Time #TimeEstimation #RatBehaviour #PlaceCells #TimeCells (added those last two because they seem clearly linked to the contents even though I don’t know if they’re actually discussed)

I did a time-estimation experiment and yes, some of the rats did develop these kind of superstitions… like standing at the delay zone… Not all of them though, at least not that we could see! And time cells seem to tell us that they do have some internal representation of time passed… also if time is actually space does it mean that the #TemporalContexModel is actually a MovementContextModel? @marcwhoward you might be interested in this…
#Need2Read

A different kind of nest-building

#RatBehaviour #NeuroRat

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#RatBehaviour question
What’s a good aversive sound for rats to be used in an experiment? 🐀​👂​
Not too stressful, but at least mildly aversive?
(For Long-Evans rats, if that matters)

#Auditory stuff

New #BehavNeuro paper:
Pausing and reorienting behaviors enhance the performance of a spatial working memory task
Apparently these “pause-and-reorient” behaviours are not the same as #VTEs! And they might have an effect on future performance 👀​
@adredish you might be interested…
#PauseAndReorient #Rat #RatBehaviour

Any #Rat specialists around here?

  • Let yourself be known and I’ll follow you 🐀​
  • Do you know of any study showing that rats can (or not) see through specific types of material, including transparent plastic or acrylic? 👀​#RatVision #RatBehaviour