Over the past 1000 years, rats (<i>Rattus</i> spp.) have become one of the most successful and prolific pests in human society. Despite their cosmopolitan distribution across six continents and ubiquity throughout the world's cities, rat urban ecology remains poorly und...

<p>Previous research has shown that compound word recognition involves selecting a relational meaning (e.g. “box for letters” for <i>letterbox</i>) out of a set of competing relational meanings for the same compound. We conducted five experiments to investigate the role...