Word: rat
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...Rat Race...
...team monitored the activity of the neurons while the rats were learning to find their way through a maze, and again while the rats were sleeping. The patterns of activity matched so closely that the team could tell were the rat would be in the maze if it were awake...
Stickgold said the observed activity in the rat hippocampus "probably have to do with consolidation of memories. Whether there is anyone home to perceive these memories is another question...
According to Wilson, whose research has focused on the human brain, the similarities between the rat and human brain mean they probably work in the same...
...expects a gang member to turn traitor. "They are blood brothers," says Coons. And any potential rat would be killed by the others. But the cash they have on hand (less than $70,000) will eventually run out. Unless they are captured (the reward is now $300,000), expect the gang to strike again. As the note they left in prison said, "You haven't heard the last...