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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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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 |
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author | Gruber, Aaron J. Thapa, Rajat Randolph, Sienna H. |
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description | 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 and effort cost. EFS decreased during initial training but persisted thereafter. The relative rate of EFS to operant responding increased with novel changes to the operant chamber, reward devaluation by prefeeding, or lesions to the dorsolateral striatum. We speculate that this may function to increase exploration when the task is uncertain (early in learning or introduction of novel apparatus components), when the opportunity cost is low, or when the learned sensorimotor solution is compromised. Moreover, EFS strongly affected subsequent choices by triggering a lose-shift response away from the sampled feeder, even though it occurred outside of the trial context. This indicates that at least some behaviors occurring between trials impact future behaviors and should be considered in decision-making studies. |
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spelling | pubmed-57571892018-01-08 Feeder Approach between Trials Is Increased by Uncertainty and Affects Subsequent Choices Gruber, Aaron J. Thapa, Rajat Randolph, Sienna H. eNeuro New Research 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 and effort cost. EFS decreased during initial training but persisted thereafter. The relative rate of EFS to operant responding increased with novel changes to the operant chamber, reward devaluation by prefeeding, or lesions to the dorsolateral striatum. We speculate that this may function to increase exploration when the task is uncertain (early in learning or introduction of novel apparatus components), when the opportunity cost is low, or when the learned sensorimotor solution is compromised. Moreover, EFS strongly affected subsequent choices by triggering a lose-shift response away from the sampled feeder, even though it occurred outside of the trial context. This indicates that at least some behaviors occurring between trials impact future behaviors and should be considered in decision-making studies. Society for Neuroscience 2018-01-08 /pmc/articles/PMC5757189/ /pubmed/29313000 http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0437-17.2017 Text en Copyright © 2017 Gruber et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed. |
spellingShingle | New Research Gruber, Aaron J. Thapa, Rajat Randolph, Sienna H. Feeder Approach between Trials Is Increased by Uncertainty and Affects Subsequent Choices |
title | Feeder Approach between Trials Is Increased by Uncertainty and Affects Subsequent Choices |
title_full | Feeder Approach between Trials Is Increased by Uncertainty and Affects Subsequent Choices |
title_fullStr | Feeder Approach between Trials Is Increased by Uncertainty and Affects Subsequent Choices |
title_full_unstemmed | Feeder Approach between Trials Is Increased by Uncertainty and Affects Subsequent Choices |
title_short | Feeder Approach between Trials Is Increased by Uncertainty and Affects Subsequent Choices |
title_sort | feeder approach between trials is increased by uncertainty and affects subsequent choices |
topic | New Research |
url | 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 |
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