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Rats Beat Humans in 2-Second Temporal Error Monitoring Study

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A 2026 iScience study found that both humans and rats could report whether their own 2-second timing responses were small-error or large-error trials, but rats were more accurate on test choices: human accuracy was 55%-57%, rat accuracy was 65%-67%, and the species gap remained significant before task-variable matching.1 Research Highlights Both species monitored timing errors: …

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Social Mindfulness Favored Ingroup Members in Refugee-Policy fMRI Study

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A 2026 fMRI study of 45 adults with strong pro- or anti-refugee stances found that people made more socially mindful choices for ingroup partners than for outgroup or unclassified partners, with mean socially mindful choices of 19.36 for ingroup, 17.18 for outgroup, and 16.31 for unclassified partners.1 Outgroup prosocial choices still occurred, but they recruited …

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