Autoshaped Head Poking in the Mouse: A Quantitative Analysis of the Learning Curve

Autor/inn/en	Papachristos, Efstathios B.; Gallistel, C. R.
Titel	Autoshaped Head Poking in the Mouse: A Quantitative Analysis of the Learning Curve
Quelle	In: Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 85 (2006) 3, S.293-308 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-5002
DOI	10.1901/jeab.2006.71-05
Schlagwörter	Individual Differences; Animals; Animal Behavior; Behavioral Science Research; Physiology; Learning Processes; Food; Conditioning + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Individueller Unterschied; Animal; Tier; Tiere; Tierverhalten; Physiologie; Learning process; Lernprozess; Lebensmittel
Abstract	In autoshaping experiments, we quantified the acquisition of anticipatory head poking in individual mice, using an algorithm that finds changes in the slope of a cumulative record. In most mice, upward changes in the amount of anticipatory poking per trial were abrupt, and tended to occur at session boundaries, suggesting that the session is as significant a unit of experience as the trial. There were large individual differences in the latency to the onset of vigorous responding. "Asymptotic" performance was unstable; large, bidirectional, and relatively enduring changes were common. Given the characteristics of the individual learning curves, it is unlikely that physiologically meaningful estimates of rate of learning can be extracted from group-average learning curves. (Contains 12 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10