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Reward Maximization Assessed Using a Sequential Patch Depletion Task in a Large Sample of Heterogeneous Stock Rats
Choice behavior requires animals to evaluate both short- and long-term advantages and disadvantages of all potential alternatives. Impulsive choice is traditionally measured in laboratory tasks by utilizing delay discounting (DD), a paradigm that offers a choice between a smaller immediate reward, o...
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American Journal Experts
2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9915773/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36778344 http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2525080/v1 |
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author | Gancarz, Amy M. Mitchell, Suzanne H. George, Anthony M. Martin, Connor D. Turk, Marisa C. Bool, Heather M. Aktar, Fahmida Kwarteng, Francis Palmer, Abraham A. Meyer, Paul J. Richards, Jerry B. Dietz, David M. Isiwari, Keita |
author_facet | Gancarz, Amy M. Mitchell, Suzanne H. George, Anthony M. Martin, Connor D. Turk, Marisa C. Bool, Heather M. Aktar, Fahmida Kwarteng, Francis Palmer, Abraham A. Meyer, Paul J. Richards, Jerry B. Dietz, David M. Isiwari, Keita |
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description | Choice behavior requires animals to evaluate both short- and long-term advantages and disadvantages of all potential alternatives. Impulsive choice is traditionally measured in laboratory tasks by utilizing delay discounting (DD), a paradigm that offers a choice between a smaller immediate reward, or a larger more delayed reward. This study tested a large sample of Heterogeneous Stock (HS) male (n = 896) and female (n = 898) rats, part of a larger genetic study, to investigate whether measures of reward maximization overlapped with traditional models of delay discounting via the patch depletion model using a Sequential Patch Depletion procedure. In this task, rats were offered a concurrent choice between two water “patches” and could elect to “stay” in the current patch or “leave” for an alternative patch. Staying in the current patch resulted in decreasing subsequent reward magnitudes, whereas the choice to leave a patch was followed by a delay and a resetting to the maximum reward magnitude. Based on the delay in a given session, different visit durations were necessary to obtain the maximum number of rewards. Visit duration may be analogous to an indifference point in traditional DD tasks. While differences in traditional DD measures (e.g., delay gradient) have been detected between males and females, these effects were small and inconsistent. However, when examining measures of reward maximization, females made fewer patch changes at all delays and spent more time in the patch before leaving for the alternative patch compared to males. This pattern of choice resulted in males having a higher rate of reinforcement than females. Consistent with this, there was some evidence that females deviated from the optimal more, leading to less reward. Measures of reward maximization were only weakly associated with traditional DD measures and may represent distinctive underlying processes. Taken together, females performance differed from males with regard to reward maximization that were not observed utilizing traditional measures of DD, suggesting that the patch depletion model was more sensitive to modest sex differences when compared to traditional DD measures in a large sample of HS rats. |
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spelling | pubmed-99157732023-02-11 Reward Maximization Assessed Using a Sequential Patch Depletion Task in a Large Sample of Heterogeneous Stock Rats Gancarz, Amy M. Mitchell, Suzanne H. George, Anthony M. Martin, Connor D. Turk, Marisa C. Bool, Heather M. Aktar, Fahmida Kwarteng, Francis Palmer, Abraham A. Meyer, Paul J. Richards, Jerry B. Dietz, David M. Isiwari, Keita Res Sq Article Choice behavior requires animals to evaluate both short- and long-term advantages and disadvantages of all potential alternatives. Impulsive choice is traditionally measured in laboratory tasks by utilizing delay discounting (DD), a paradigm that offers a choice between a smaller immediate reward, or a larger more delayed reward. This study tested a large sample of Heterogeneous Stock (HS) male (n = 896) and female (n = 898) rats, part of a larger genetic study, to investigate whether measures of reward maximization overlapped with traditional models of delay discounting via the patch depletion model using a Sequential Patch Depletion procedure. In this task, rats were offered a concurrent choice between two water “patches” and could elect to “stay” in the current patch or “leave” for an alternative patch. Staying in the current patch resulted in decreasing subsequent reward magnitudes, whereas the choice to leave a patch was followed by a delay and a resetting to the maximum reward magnitude. Based on the delay in a given session, different visit durations were necessary to obtain the maximum number of rewards. Visit duration may be analogous to an indifference point in traditional DD tasks. While differences in traditional DD measures (e.g., delay gradient) have been detected between males and females, these effects were small and inconsistent. However, when examining measures of reward maximization, females made fewer patch changes at all delays and spent more time in the patch before leaving for the alternative patch compared to males. This pattern of choice resulted in males having a higher rate of reinforcement than females. Consistent with this, there was some evidence that females deviated from the optimal more, leading to less reward. Measures of reward maximization were only weakly associated with traditional DD measures and may represent distinctive underlying processes. Taken together, females performance differed from males with regard to reward maximization that were not observed utilizing traditional measures of DD, suggesting that the patch depletion model was more sensitive to modest sex differences when compared to traditional DD measures in a large sample of HS rats. American Journal Experts 2023-02-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9915773/ /pubmed/36778344 http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2525080/v1 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, so long as attribution is given to the creator. The license allows for commercial use. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Read Full License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) |
spellingShingle | Article Gancarz, Amy M. Mitchell, Suzanne H. George, Anthony M. Martin, Connor D. Turk, Marisa C. Bool, Heather M. Aktar, Fahmida Kwarteng, Francis Palmer, Abraham A. Meyer, Paul J. Richards, Jerry B. Dietz, David M. Isiwari, Keita Reward Maximization Assessed Using a Sequential Patch Depletion Task in a Large Sample of Heterogeneous Stock Rats |
title | Reward Maximization Assessed Using a Sequential Patch Depletion Task in a Large Sample of Heterogeneous Stock Rats |
title_full | Reward Maximization Assessed Using a Sequential Patch Depletion Task in a Large Sample of Heterogeneous Stock Rats |
title_fullStr | Reward Maximization Assessed Using a Sequential Patch Depletion Task in a Large Sample of Heterogeneous Stock Rats |
title_full_unstemmed | Reward Maximization Assessed Using a Sequential Patch Depletion Task in a Large Sample of Heterogeneous Stock Rats |
title_short | Reward Maximization Assessed Using a Sequential Patch Depletion Task in a Large Sample of Heterogeneous Stock Rats |
title_sort | reward maximization assessed using a sequential patch depletion task in a large sample of heterogeneous stock rats |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9915773/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36778344 http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2525080/v1 |
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