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A Novel Weight Lifting Task for Investigating Effort and Persistence in Rats

Here we present a novel effort-based task for laboratory rats: the weight lifting task (WLT). Studies of effort expenditure in rodents have typically involved climbing barriers within T-mazes or operant lever pressing paradigms. These task designs have been successful for neuropharmacological and ne...

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Autores principales: Porter, Blake, Hillman, Kristin L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6930902/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31920582
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2019.00275