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To measure cognition in rats, ARS scientists used video imaging of a pool to track the route rats took to find a submerged platform (the end point of their swim).  This diagram of the top view of an early trial of a rat fed blueberry extract shows that the rat was confused in locating the platform.

 

Image by Barbara Shukitt-Hale.






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