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Different Levels of Food Restriction Reveal Genotype-Specific Differences in Learning a Visual Discrimination Task

In behavioural experiments, motivation to learn can be achieved using food rewards as positive reinforcement in food-restricted animals. Previous studies reduce animal weights to 80–90% of free-feeding body weight as the criterion for food restriction. However, effects of different degrees of food r...

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Autores principales: Makowiecki, Kalina, Hammond, Geoff, Rodger, Jennifer
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3492417/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23144936
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0048703