Studying primates is the only way to understand human cognition — or so neuroscientists thought. But there may be much to learn from rats and mice, finds Alison Abbott.
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Abbott, A. Neuroscience: The rat pack. Nature 465, 282–283 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/465282a
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