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1Department of Psychology, Western University, London, Ontario N6A 5C2, Canada.
Current Biology : CB
|October 26, 2016
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A new study in which rats had to discriminate odors according to whether they were novel for a particular environmental context has found that they can accurately discriminate a large number of odors and multiple context transitions, suggesting that they are able to form and remember multiple episodic memories.
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