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Exploring the relationship between actions, habits, and automaticity in an action sequence task
It is tempting to equate the automatization of an action sequence with the formation of a habit. However, the term “habit” specifically implies a failure to evaluate future consequences to guide behavior. To test if automatized sequences become habitual, we trained rats on an action sequence task fo...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6432170/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30898975 http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/lm.048645.118 |
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description | It is tempting to equate the automatization of an action sequence with the formation of a habit. However, the term “habit” specifically implies a failure to evaluate future consequences to guide behavior. To test if automatized sequences become habitual, we trained rats on an action sequence task for either 20 or 60 d and then conducted reward devaluation tests. While both groups showed equivalent goal-directed performance of the trained action sequence on a global measure of behavior, sequence initiation and completion times were differentially sensitive to outcome devaluation in moderately and extensively trained rats. |
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spelling | pubmed-64321702020-04-01 Exploring the relationship between actions, habits, and automaticity in an action sequence task Garr, Eric Delamater, Andrew R. Learn Mem Brief Communication It is tempting to equate the automatization of an action sequence with the formation of a habit. However, the term “habit” specifically implies a failure to evaluate future consequences to guide behavior. To test if automatized sequences become habitual, we trained rats on an action sequence task for either 20 or 60 d and then conducted reward devaluation tests. While both groups showed equivalent goal-directed performance of the trained action sequence on a global measure of behavior, sequence initiation and completion times were differentially sensitive to outcome devaluation in moderately and extensively trained rats. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 2019-04 /pmc/articles/PMC6432170/ /pubmed/30898975 http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/lm.048645.118 Text en © 2019 Garr and Delamater; Published by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed exclusively by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press for the first 12 months after the full-issue publication date (see http://learnmem.cshlp.org/site/misc/terms.xhtml). After 12 months, it is available under a Creative Commons License (Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International), as described at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Brief Communication Garr, Eric Delamater, Andrew R. Exploring the relationship between actions, habits, and automaticity in an action sequence task |
title | Exploring the relationship between actions, habits, and automaticity in an action sequence task |
title_full | Exploring the relationship between actions, habits, and automaticity in an action sequence task |
title_fullStr | Exploring the relationship between actions, habits, and automaticity in an action sequence task |
title_full_unstemmed | Exploring the relationship between actions, habits, and automaticity in an action sequence task |
title_short | Exploring the relationship between actions, habits, and automaticity in an action sequence task |
title_sort | exploring the relationship between actions, habits, and automaticity in an action sequence task |
topic | Brief Communication |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6432170/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30898975 http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/lm.048645.118 |
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