RE: MIT research reports rats dream of mazes

From: Mark Mills (mmills@htcomp.net)
Date: Thu Jan 25 2001 - 18:20:19 GMT

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    Lawrence,

    At 11:45 AM 1/25/01 -0500, you wrote:
    >Rats don't learn mazes from each other, but each rat
    >has to learn the maze de novo. If rats did learn mazes from each other,
    >then there would be something to talk about.

    What is the difference at a neurologic level? Learning from sensory input
    while running around in a maze and learning from sensory input while
    imitating a conspecific still means learning from sensory input.

    Mark

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