{"id":1968,"date":"2013-03-07T13:53:34","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T20:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=1968"},"modified":"2013-03-07T13:53:34","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T20:53:34","slug":"telepathic-rats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2013\/03\/07\/telepathic-rats\/","title":{"rendered":"Telepathic Rats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From what I can gather, \u00a0the experiment referred to in <a href=\"http:\/\/videos.huffingtonpost.com\/world\/one-world-one-mind-517692823\">this discussion<\/a>\u00a0may have just involved transmitting the excitation pattern of motor neurons associated with pressing the (say) left button rather than transmitting any &#8220;conceptual&#8221; association of that button with the subsequent reward. The receiving rat would then reflexively press the left button and after getting the reward might then be reinforced and so have &#8220;learned&#8221; the association on the basis of its own experience. What would be needed to demonstrate the transmission of anything close to learning would be for stimulation of the receiving rat <em>prior<\/em> to exposure to the apparatus to have the effect of increasing its likelihood of making \u00a0a subsequent correct choice while NOT stimulated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From what I can gather, \u00a0the experiment referred to in this discussion\u00a0may have just involved transmitting the excitation pattern of motor neurons associated with pressing the (say) left button rather than transmitting any &#8220;conceptual&#8221; association of that button with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2013\/03\/07\/telepathic-rats\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1969,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions\/1969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}