Do mice like eating cheese more than other foods? (Image credit: JanPietruszka via Getty Images) From "Tom and Jerry" to "The Farmer in the Dell," pop culture is full of mice that love cheese.

``Cheese-loving mice'' are drawn in animation and manga, including Tom and Jerry , but there should be few people who actually saw mice eating cheese. Scientific media Live Science ...

But besides boosting your spirits, new research has now found that eating certain cheese can possibly improve your memory. ... researchers took two groups of male mice and fed both a high-fat diet.

Although mice do eat cheese, the famous association is overrated. They actually prefer grains, nuts, vegetables, peanut butter and cookies to cheese. Lifecycle Differences.

A new Stanford study uses behavioral analysis, neural engineering, electrophysiology, and math to explore how mice decide whether to eat or drink when they are both hungry and thirsty.