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New Variations for Strategy Set-shifting in the Rat
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Sciences du comportement
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Journal JoVE Sciences du comportement
New Variations for Strategy Set-shifting in the Rat

New Variations for Strategy Set-shifting in the Rat

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09:45 min

January 23, 2017

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09:45 min
January 23, 2017

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Set-shifting, a form of behavioral flexibility, requires an attentional shift from one stimulus dimension to another. We extended an established rodent set-shifting task1 by requiring attention to different stimuli according to context. The task was combined with specific lesions to identify neuron subtypes underlying a successful shift.

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