{"id":137130,"date":"2022-03-20T08:24:16","date_gmt":"2022-03-20T15:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/a-surprise-finding-about-mouse-vision-could-change-our-view-of-cognition"},"modified":"2022-03-20T08:24:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T15:24:16","slug":"a-surprise-finding-about-mouse-vision-could-change-our-view-of-cognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/a-surprise-finding-about-mouse-vision-could-change-our-view-of-cognition","title":{"rendered":"A Surprise Finding About Mouse Vision Could Change Our View of Cognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-surprise-finding-about-mouse-vision-could-change-our-view-of-cognition2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Being able to tell the difference between a photo of something and the actual thing itself \u2013 picture-to-object equivalence, in science speak \u2013 is a useful test for better understanding the visual and cognitive function of other primates, birds, and even rats.<\/p>\n<p>But how far does this ability to interpret a flat image extend in the animal kingdom?<\/p>\n<p>A new study has found mice might also have the capacity, as they demonstrated the ability to link a 2D image of an object with the actual 3D object itself, using the hippocampus part of their brains in the same way that humans do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being able to tell the difference between a photo of something and the actual thing itself \u2013 picture-to-object equivalence, in science speak \u2013 is a useful test for better understanding the visual and cognitive function of other primates, birds, and even rats. But how far does this ability to interpret a flat image extend in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}