Generations of psychologists worked with four main models: pigeons, white mice, rats, and introductory psychology students. The first three are pretty obvious – anyone interested in psychology has ...

Researchers have finished their work with lab rats and have put the animals up for adoption.They were used for psychology work but now have the chance to retire, assistant professor of psychology ...

Each day technicians at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, check on special groups of mice in their care. The mice are all more than 600 days old, roughly 60 in human years; some are much ...

Sixteen female rats are heading out into the real world after life at college. That is, their life as study subjects. These rats may not have earned degrees of their own, but they helped other ...

To learn more about how environmental factors influence the cognitive abilities of humans, researchers have trained rodents to drive tiny cars. It may sound far out, but rats have similar pathways and ...