A local high school is running an experiment with a colony of infant rats. Half of the infant rats are isolated in barren cages and the other half live together in an enriched environment with lots of rat toys and exercise equipment. What would the expected outcome be at the end of the school year?

The rats in the enriched environment will have significantly larger cerebral cortices True or False

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Lucy Noble

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28 April, 03:01

A local high school is running an experiment with a colony of infant rats. Half of the infant rats are isolated in barren cages and the other half live together in an enriched environment with lots of rat toys and exercise equipment. What would the expected outcome be at the end of the school year?

The rats in the enriched environment will have significantly larger cerebral cortices True or False

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Answer:True

Explanation:Below are the list of cerebral cortex (part of the brain) function in the body

Determining intelligence.

Determining personality.

Motor function.

Planning and organization.

Touch sensation.

Processing sensory information.

Language processing.

Rats which have been exposed to an environment that stimulates all these functions are likely to have a large part of celebral cortex because these functions have been activated due to their surrounding environment that is well enriched with all sort of things responsible for activating these functions