Rats Regret Making the Wrong Decision
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 8th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Rats Regret Making the Wrong Decision
David Redish and his graduate student Adam Steiner of the University of Minnesota didn’t set out to study if rats experience regret. They were looking at decision-making in rats. But something about the behavior of their subjects struck them as interesting. When a rat made a mistake, it stopped and looked backwards. Anthropomorphically, it looked to Steiner and Redish as if the rat was feeling regret. That observation lead the researchers to design an experiment to induce regret in rats and then measure behavioral and neurophysiological markers consistent with regret. The results were published in Nature Neuroscience.
Ed Gillespie Wins Virginia Senate Primary
Former presidential adviser and lobbyist Ed Gillespie won the Republican nomination at the state party convention Saturday and will face Democratic Sen. Mark Warner in the general election in November. Gillespie, the former Republican National Committee chairman, has made millions as a corporate lobbyist after he worked as an aide to former House Majority Leader Dick Armey. “I will take our fight to Mark Warner, I will lead us to victory in the fall and we can turn our great country around again,” Gillespie said.