This finding came on the heels of similar
observations in rodents, monkeys and birds.
Not exact matches
After starting with these human
observations, Palmer's team is now studying the same delay discounting - related genetic traits
in rodent models.
The researchers found a clue to overcoming this barrier
in their
observations of
rodent hair.
Once they did that, they saw that the overall electrical activity
in their model of 12,000 neurons was akin to
observations of brain activity
in rodents, hinting at the origin of brain waves.
Reporting on their study of free - roaming cats
in Brooklyn, Calhoon and Haspel write: «Although birds and small
rodents are plentiful
in the study area, only once
in more than 180 [hours] of
observations did we observe predation.»