The development of science and technology help us understand human and animal behaviour better and better as the years go by. Often, animals that react in similar ways to humans are used as subjects to conduct experiments for researches. In this article, Cornelius Schwarz, head of a research group at the University of Tübingen's Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN) and Shubhodeep Chakrabarti were awarded an independent investigator grant by the German Research Fundation (DFG) to lead a research on "sensory gating" which could be defined as the different reactions…