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Valuation of opportunity costs by rats working for rewarding electrical brain stimulation

Pursuit of one goal typically precludes simultaneous pursuit of another. Thus, each exclusive activity entails an “opportunity cost:” the forgone benefits from the next-best activity eschewed. The present experiment estimates, in laboratory rats, the function that maps objective opportunity costs in...

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Autores principales: Solomon, Rebecca Brana, Conover, Kent, Shizgal, Peter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5571941/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28841663
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0182120