Mikey Fullerton shared a picture of the 40cm-long rat on his company's social media page next to a Lucozade bottle to highlight how enormous it was. The responses were somewhat mixed ...
A neuroscientist on lessons learned from teaching rodents to drive a mini-car. We crafted our first rodent car from a plastic cereal container and quickly found that rats could learn to drive forward ...
We dubbed this new line of study UPERs—unpredictable positive experience responses—where rats were trained to wait for rewards. In contrast, control rats received their rewards immediately.