MIT research reports rats dream of mazes

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    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20010124/aponline170158_001.htm

    Study: Rats Dream About Mazes

    By Jay Lindsay
    Associated Press Writer
    Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2001; 5:01 p.m. EST

    BOSTON –– Rats apparently can't escape the rat race, even when
    they're sound asleep.

    Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say they have
    entered the dreams of rats and found them busily working their way
    through the same lab mazes they negotiate during the day.
    .....
    The scientists had the mice perform specific tasks in a maze that produced
    very distinctive patterns of brain activity. When they repeatedly saw
    almost exactly the same patterns reproduced during sleep, they concluded
    the rats were dreaming about running through the maze....

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