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Vicarious reward unblocks associative learning about novel cues in male rats

Many species, including rats, are sensitive to social signals and their valuation is important in social learning. Here we introduce a task that investigates if mutual reward delivery in male rats can drive associative learning. We found that when actor rats have fully learned a stimulus-self-reward...

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Autores principales: van Gurp, Sander, Hoog, Jochen, Kalenscher, Tobias, van Wingerden, Marijn
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7529453/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33001030
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.60755