[Sparkyte]

The problem with this study as that mice do not have the collective intelligence to know the situation they are in and there for the input and output is straight forward. If the information is kept transparent to a person human level sentenance the could have entirely different results.

No animal or human deserves to be compared to as their nature while still part of the same kingdom is distinctively different.

Man understands what walls are, what they do, what they mean. It is conceptual and tangible in thought. Pets, the family cat for example, knows only that it is an obstacle. There is no further meaning or allusion, it is to them in all ways just an obstacle.

[throwway120385]

Without actually talking to the cat, there's not any way of knowing that they don't perceive walls within some abstraction like "building." All we can really say is that the cat behaves as if the wall is some unchangeable object in its environment. You can't know the mind of a cat. Maybe they just like the idea of being inside something impregnable?

[Sparkyte]

Possible but that also means you have no way to convey the difference between the idea of wall and the unchangeable object that is the wall.

The idea of this experiment succeeding depends entirely on those in the experiment knowing the rules of the test.