Rats perceive the world with a complexity that modern artificial neural networks struggle to match. This is the finding of a recent study published in the journal Patterns by the Visual Neuroscience ...

A robotic rat learned how to befriend real rats using AI. The wheeled rat was designed to provide companionship for lab rats, which can live pretty secluded and lonely lives. The robots have movements ...

Dumbo rats are among the most charming yet misunderstood small pets in the animal world. Easily recognized by their large, ...

Recent advances in behavioural neuroscience have elevated the study of rodent models by utilising T-pattern analysis, a sophisticated multivariate technique that uncovers hidden temporal structures in ...