Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In his blog post Tóth begins by describing how he built his setup. As the video above shows the rats play the video game by ...

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 ...

You've heard the concept of the "rat race," but how about a literal rat, racing through the hallways of Doom? One researcher named Viktor Toth ran an experiment over nearly six months, seeing if he ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo shows a rat in the center of an area with images projected on its walls. The rat is hooked up to an apparatus that's ...

UCLA scientists observed the activity of large numbers of neurons in the brains of rats while the animals navigated a virtual reality maze. [Mehta Lab/UCLA] It has been long understood that the area ...

Remember Viktor Tóth? He’s a Hungarian software engineer and neuroscientist, and probably the only human on Earth who has taught rats how to play a first-person shooter game. And now he’s weighing the ...

Scientists have long understood that the region of the brain called the hippocampus is important for memory, learning and navigation. Now, scientists in a UCLA lab led by neurophysicist Mayank Mehta ...