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Altering Perceived Context: Transportation Cues Influence Novelty-Induced Context Exploration

Context is the milieu in which everything occurs. Many research studies consider context, or even explicitly manipulate it; yet it remains challenging to characterize. We know that a context surrounds and influences tasks; however, the boundaries of its influence are difficult to define. In behavior...

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Autores principales: Nemchek, Victoria, Agee, Laura A., Malone, Cassidy A., Raskin, Marissa, Seese, Sydney, Monfils, Marie H.
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8358674/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34393737
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2021.714927
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author Nemchek, Victoria
Agee, Laura A.
Malone, Cassidy A.
Raskin, Marissa
Seese, Sydney
Monfils, Marie H.
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Agee, Laura A.
Malone, Cassidy A.
Raskin, Marissa
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Monfils, Marie H.
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description Context is the milieu in which everything occurs. Many research studies consider context, or even explicitly manipulate it; yet it remains challenging to characterize. We know that a context surrounds and influences tasks; however, the boundaries of its influence are difficult to define. In behavioral science, context is often operationalized by the physical environment in which the experiment takes place, and the boundaries of the context are assumed to begin at the entrance to that of the room or apparatus. Experiences during transportation to the testing space have been shown to impact rodent behavior and memory, but transportation’s relationship with novelty and physical environment is not fully understood. The current study explored how familiar vs. novel cues, both within a physical environment and preceding it, impact the perception of a context. We manipulated context on three levels: physical testing environment, object cues within that environment, and transportation cues preceding entrance to the testing environment. We found that novel transportation cues can change rats’ perception of both familiar and novel contexts. The effects of transportation on perceived context may be affected by the length of the retention interval, testing environment, and behavioral range. These data suggest that context is a broad concept that includes cues across time and is sensitive to small differences in experience.
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spelling pubmed-83586742021-08-13 Altering Perceived Context: Transportation Cues Influence Novelty-Induced Context Exploration Nemchek, Victoria Agee, Laura A. Malone, Cassidy A. Raskin, Marissa Seese, Sydney Monfils, Marie H. Front Behav Neurosci Behavioral Neuroscience Context is the milieu in which everything occurs. Many research studies consider context, or even explicitly manipulate it; yet it remains challenging to characterize. We know that a context surrounds and influences tasks; however, the boundaries of its influence are difficult to define. In behavioral science, context is often operationalized by the physical environment in which the experiment takes place, and the boundaries of the context are assumed to begin at the entrance to that of the room or apparatus. Experiences during transportation to the testing space have been shown to impact rodent behavior and memory, but transportation’s relationship with novelty and physical environment is not fully understood. The current study explored how familiar vs. novel cues, both within a physical environment and preceding it, impact the perception of a context. We manipulated context on three levels: physical testing environment, object cues within that environment, and transportation cues preceding entrance to the testing environment. We found that novel transportation cues can change rats’ perception of both familiar and novel contexts. The effects of transportation on perceived context may be affected by the length of the retention interval, testing environment, and behavioral range. These data suggest that context is a broad concept that includes cues across time and is sensitive to small differences in experience. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-07-29 /pmc/articles/PMC8358674/ /pubmed/34393737 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2021.714927 Text en Copyright © 2021 Nemchek, Agee, Malone, Raskin, Seese and Monfils. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Nemchek, Victoria
Agee, Laura A.
Malone, Cassidy A.
Raskin, Marissa
Seese, Sydney
Monfils, Marie H.
Altering Perceived Context: Transportation Cues Influence Novelty-Induced Context Exploration
title Altering Perceived Context: Transportation Cues Influence Novelty-Induced Context Exploration
title_full Altering Perceived Context: Transportation Cues Influence Novelty-Induced Context Exploration
title_fullStr Altering Perceived Context: Transportation Cues Influence Novelty-Induced Context Exploration
title_full_unstemmed Altering Perceived Context: Transportation Cues Influence Novelty-Induced Context Exploration
title_short Altering Perceived Context: Transportation Cues Influence Novelty-Induced Context Exploration
title_sort altering perceived context: transportation cues influence novelty-induced context exploration
topic Behavioral Neuroscience
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8358674/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34393737
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2021.714927
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