Rats Can Use Imagination to Navigate in Virtual Reality, Study
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Like humans, the rodents appear to be able to visualize walking through locations they've previously visited
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Sleep facilitates spatial memory but not navigation using the
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Rats Put in Virtual Reality Possess This Incredibly Human-like Trait
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Neuroscience/AI - Can rats 'think'? A paper by Chongxi Lai and
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Scientists reveal that rats have an imagination
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Rats Can Use Imagination to Navigate in Virtual Reality, Study
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Can rats 'imagine'? Rodents show signs of imagination while
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Mental navigation and telekinesis with a hippocampal map-based
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Rats can move a digital object using just their brain