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Operant Protocols for Assessing the Cost-benefit Analysis During Reinforced Decision Making by Rodents

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September 10th, 2018

September 10th, 2018

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Title

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Experimental Set-up

2:18

Maze Habituation

3:20

Discrimination Training

6:02

Results: Temporal and Spectral Dynamics of ACC and OFC Neural Activities

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Conclusion

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This technique can answer key questions in cognitive neurosciences such as how comparing consequences and causes can affect making a decision. The main advantage of this technique is that the special elements such as the location of the board do n

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A cost-benefit analysis is a weighing-scale approach that the brain performs during the course of decision making. Here, we propose a protocol to train rats on an operant-based decision-making paradigm where rats choose higher rewards at the expense of waiting for 15 s to receive them.

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