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New study reveals that rats are much smarter than previously thought

2024-08-14 18:04:52Lifestyle SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
New study reveals that rats are much smarter than previously thought
New study reveals that rats are much smarter than previously thought

Horses are much smarter than previously thought, can plan ahead and think strategically, scientists said, as a study showed the animals performed better than expected in a complex reward-based game.

The researchers found that when denied rewards for not following the rules of the game, the horses were able to immediately change strategies.

"This shows that animals have the ability to think and plan ahead - something previously thought to be beyond their capacity," said scientists at Nottingham Trent University (NTU), England.

"Knowing how horses learn can help keepers train them more humanely and improve their welfare," the team added.

"Horses are not natural geniuses, they are thought of as mediocre, but this study showed that they do not have average intelligence - and are actually more advanced cognitively," said Carrie Ijichi, a senior lecturer in equine science at NTU.

"Animals usually need several repetitions of a task to gradually acquire new knowledge, but our horses immediately improved the skills - when we included a cost for errors. This suggests that the horses knew all along what the rules of the game were," said Louise Evans, a PhD candidate in NTU's School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences.

The researchers said the findings, published in the journal Applied Animal Behavior Science, suggest that horses have the ability to form an internal model of the world around them - to make decisions and make predictions, a technique known as cue-based learning. model.

Model-based learning was previously thought to be much more complex for horses, as they have an underdeveloped pre-frontal cortex – a part of the brain associated with strategic thinking.


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