eld ago , this experimentation got publish up a few places with headlines like , “ Your revenue enhancement dollars at work ! ” But that ’s what happens when your experiment gives rats cocaine and makes them listen to jazz .
Of course , the experiment was n’t about seeing if cocaine aid rats enjoy jazz ( although it does ) . The first experiment involved rats being take from their lab colony and dumped in a jail cell during which they mind to 90 minutes of Miles Davis ’ Four . scientist observed them , notice how much they incite around ( this was scientifically dubbed “ locomotor body process ” ) , and then they were taken back to their enclosures . After a few day of this , they were taken back to their music appreciation chamber , but this time one-half of the group was dosed with methamphetamines , and one-half with saline solution . One would opine that the locomotor activity pick up a bit in the ice group .
After seven days of this discussion , the rats were left alone for a day , and then taken to a new room . In this newfangled surround , unconnected to the saline or the drug , they had one last round of Miles Davis . While the blackleg were listening , undrugged , to the music , they were again checked for locomotor activity . The meth rat showed a good deal more than the saline stinker . The meth rats were also find to have promote levels of Intropin — a chemical associated both with motor control and pleasure . basically , the scientist were rise that musical cues could cause state standardized to being do drugs , if the clew were tie in with drug .
The next experiment started by introducing another universe of scab to Miles Davis ’ Four , and also to Beethoven ’s Für Elise . In this experiment the skunk control a telephone dial , allow them listen to whichever song they care . Most of the rats just bid for silence , and turned a telephone dial so that they get under one’s skin it . The scientists then inject cocaine into the drugs , and made them listen to their least - favorite euphony choice . ( Not to do it , just to whatever was their least - favorite option . ) Sure enough , a few sitting with cocain got blackleg to prefer their least - best-loved music . They turned to it because it was the only way they had to get the physical and mental kick they ’d gotten from the drugs .
This may not be the best possible experiment done to examine drug behaviour , but it was n’t using coke to learn rats to like jazz . The first experimentation demo that music that rats associated with drugs could induce forcible responses in the informer which , in some ways , mimicked drug . The 2nd experiment showed that the puke would take steps to assay out those responses . Musical cue stick , if associated with drug use , could induce physical and behavioral responses in rats .
( Now if the next experiment gets the rats to reply physically and behaviorally to John Cage ’s 4’33 ” , I ’d be very impressed . )
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