Of Rats and REM.Animals don't dream big, but they do dream, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a new study. Without being able to ask animals about it, scientists basically read the minds of laboratory rats while the rats were sleeping. The rats' brain activity during rapid eye movement sleep rapid eye movement sleep See REM sleep, Sleep stages. (REM), when most dreams occur for humans, matched the pattern of activity when the rats were running in a circular maze. By dreaming of the maze, rats may have been storing memories of the day. One of the researchers, Dr. Matthew Wilson For the figure skater, see . Matthew Wilson (born 29th January, 1987) is a World Rally Championship driver from Cockermouth in Cumbria, England. He is the son of M-Sport boss and former WRC driver, Malcolm Wilson. of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, , says the findings "are the strongest evidence we have to date that animals have something close to human dreaming." The rats' dreams may seem dull, but that's because lab rats have boring lives. "It might be that a wild subway rat's dreams are as exciting as our epic adventures in sleep," Wilson says. |
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