Do Rodents Share Human Logical Errors?
Originally Published 2 years ago — by Neuroscience News
Rats seem to make the same logical errors as humans, according to a study by UCLA psychology researchers. The study found that rats fall prey to conjunction fallacies, or the incorrect assumption that if two events sometimes occur at the same time, they are more likely to occur together than either event is to occur alone. The findings suggest that rats could potentially serve as good research models for studying psychopathological conditions characterized by false beliefs or the perception of nonexistent events, like schizophrenia and certain anxiety disorders.