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Feeder Approach between Trials Is Increased by Uncertainty and Affects Subsequent Choices

Animals quickly learn to approach sources of food. Here, we report on a form of approach in which rats made volitional orofacial contact with inactive feeders between trials of a self-paced operant task. This extraneous feeder sampling (EFS) was never reinforced and therefore imposed an opportunity...

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Autores principales: Gruber, Aaron J., Thapa, Rajat, Randolph, Sienna H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Society for Neuroscience 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5757189/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29313000
http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0437-17.2017