Lab Rats playing Another Brick in the Wall

"We don't need no education"

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Science & Technology

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• Stimulus control
• Laboratory rats
• playing
• We don't need no education

[alevieirareis]

This is amazing !

Please, tell us how you did it. I mean, explain a little bit of the procedures in the video's description...

[TheDrpholth]

Thanks, Alessandro. This is an example of what you can do with pure and basic behavior analysis: Shaping, differential reinforcement, intermittent reinforcement, and then attaching different sounds to each lever and the programming of a tune as a specific sequence of lights. Originally, the rats participated in an experiment on a “Continuous Repertoire,” but it was too tempting to give them a musical break when stimulus control was close to perfect. They are now back in the original experiment.

[jfdomega]

Now see how he fares with the sax???

[h4x354x0r]

Aw, that's so sweet! One of my favorite critters playing a tune from one of my favorite bands. Rats are very sweet and intelligent pets; this one has been trained well!

[NB32]

I'm sure this cute experiment will be warmly received by cash-strapped researchers and anti-vivsectionists all over the world! 

[LoLisTheMyth]

We don't need no operant conditioning. Oh, wait.

[nisiriti]

great!!!!!!! and what a cute mouse!!!!

[alevieirareis]

@TheDrpholth Thanks!

And, please, give us more videos like this! =)

[mdethbr]

Forget the cure for cancer.

This is gonna be my main career goal.

[sister0fnight]

amazing! i'll post this im my blog :)