title: Rats respond where it counts.
abstract: Taniuchi, Sugihara, Wakashima, and Kamijo (2016) report the surprising finding that rats can transfer numerical discrimination to novel objects. Further experiments show that rat numerical discrimination is flexible, as it can both count homogeneous and heterogeneous objects and omit an odd object.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Western University, London, Ontario, N6A 5C2, Canada. Roberts@uwo.ca.
authors.forename: William A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Roberts
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003071:Cognition; D051381:Rats; D014163:Transfer, Psychology
keywords: Numerical processing; Object recognition