As memory fades, people may have difficulty learning new things or navigating their surroundings. In an experiment with rats, scientists explore the role of the hippocampus in helping rats get through ...

A fully-automated rat maze could help scientists better understand how individuals cooperate, and how this process may go awry in the brains of people with disorders ranging from autism to ...

Exercise may not erase old memories, as some studies in animals have previously suggested. Running on an exercise wheel doesn’t make rats forget previous trips through an underwater maze, Ashok Shetty ...