New Study: Rats on Cocaine Love Jazz. Wait–What?
Every once in a while, we hear about strange research endeavours that, on the surface at least, don’t seem to make a lot of sense. I’m sure the lab-coated boffins behind this study had their reasons for jacking up their rats on gak and exposing them to repeated listenings of Kind of Blue. It’s just that I’m apparently too dumb to understand.
From the NY Daily News:
Taxpayers may feel kind of blue when they discover their dollars went to fund a study to determine rats like to bop to the music of Miles Davis while hopped up on cocaine.
The study, which was performed at Albany Medical College, drew jeers from the animal rights group In Defense of Animals and landed it on its top ten list of Real Ridiculous Research.
The research found that sober rats don’t really like music that much. After the silence, the rats liked Beethoven’s “Fur Elise” more than Miles Davis’s iconic jazz tune “Four.”
But when the rats were given doses of cocaine, their tasted shifted and they gravitated toward the jazz.
I have heard a Principal Togar has been doing some research about how rats respond to music. More infomation here: http://youtu.be/C9N11NBiews