Why did some experimenters in the 1960's and 1970's grind up the brains of some rats and inject extracts into other rats?
A) It was believed that the extra neurotransmitter would speed up learning.
B) It was believed that memories could be transferred in this way.
C) They were interested in brain transplants, and wanted to see if the material would be rejected.
D) Studies of human cannibals had found extraordinary memory abilities.

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These experimenters believed that memories could potentially be stored in the brain in the form of biochemicals, and sought to test this by grinding up the brains of rats that had undergone a specific learning task and injecting the resulting extracts into other rats. They hypothesized that the injected extracts would contain the memory of the learning task and that the recipient rats would be able to perform the task better.

Why Did Some Experimenters in the 1960's and 1970's Grind