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Fri Jan 14 2005

Media: Rat Ability to Differentiate Human Languages

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1. Mark Jones, Rat Ability to Differentiate Human Languages

Message 1: Rat Ability to Differentiate Human Languages

Date: 14-Jan-2005
From: Mark Jones <markjjones

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Subject: Rat Ability to Differentiate Human Languages

Dear All,

The Life supplement to the British daily broadsheet The Guardian (13th Jan
2005) contains a short report on research reported in Journal of
Experimental Psychology: Animal Behaviour Processes which apparently
demonstrates that rats can learn to respond in different ways to different
human languages:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/dispatch/story/0,12978,1388501,00.html

Mark J. Jones
Department of Linguistics
University of Cambridge
http://kiri.ling.cam.ac.uk/mark
Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
Psycholinguistics
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