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Is this typically British, or just scatalogically preoccupied in a sad way?
Bizarre Evolution and Behaviour experiment today. First we watched these two pigeons in this cage thing. When one saw a green/red light, the other one had to peck a particular button and then they both got fed. It was quite funny, cos to tell the truth, the pigeons were more interested in watching us than pecking buttons for food pellets. The we watched this rat. The rat is put in the 'maze' which is a platform with 8 arms coming off, and there's food at the end of each arm. It has to remember which arms it's aready eaten the food from (cos it can't see until it gets down there) and which arms still have food in. So it pottered around and ate food pellets and gave us all funny looks. It was cute.
Then we did a human-adapted version of the rat experiment, only we had to point at lighs on a ring, and there were 11 lights not 8. I was extremely bad at it (you were shown 7 random lights in turn, and then they gave you 2 lights, and you had to tell them which of them they'd switched on before in that trial, and which one they hadn't, and where the one you had seen came in the sequence). I think the rats beat me. However, the good news was that the practical finished 40 minutes early, so I could go home and spod. Yay!
More work on our plant sciences poster today. Endogenous RNA and viral movement in plant phloem - enthralling! *cough* Oh, and the vending machine swallowed 20p of my money *sob!*
Bizarre Evolution and Behaviour experiment today. First we watched these two pigeons in this cage thing. When one saw a green/red light, the other one had to peck a particular button and then they both got fed. It was quite funny, cos to tell the truth, the pigeons were more interested in watching us than pecking buttons for food pellets. The we watched this rat. The rat is put in the 'maze' which is a platform with 8 arms coming off, and there's food at the end of each arm. It has to remember which arms it's aready eaten the food from (cos it can't see until it gets down there) and which arms still have food in. So it pottered around and ate food pellets and gave us all funny looks. It was cute.
Then we did a human-adapted version of the rat experiment, only we had to point at lighs on a ring, and there were 11 lights not 8. I was extremely bad at it (you were shown 7 random lights in turn, and then they gave you 2 lights, and you had to tell them which of them they'd switched on before in that trial, and which one they hadn't, and where the one you had seen came in the sequence). I think the rats beat me. However, the good news was that the practical finished 40 minutes early, so I could go home and spod. Yay!
More work on our plant sciences poster today. Endogenous RNA and viral movement in plant phloem - enthralling! *cough* Oh, and the vending machine swallowed 20p of my money *sob!*
