Claim of memory transfer made 50 years ago

Excerpt from the August 21, 1965 issue of Science News Letter

MIND MELD  Scientists' claims in the 1960s of transferred memories in rats were more fiction than fact.

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Memory Transfer Seen — Experiments with rats, showing how chemicals from one rat brain influence the memory of an untrained animal, indicate that tinkering with the brain of humans is also possible.