Individual variability in behavioral flexibility predicts sign-tracking tendency

Sign-tracking rats show heightened sensitivity to food- and drug-associated cues, which serve as strong incentives for driving reward seeking. We hypothesized that this enhanced incentive drive is accompanied by an inflexibility when incentive value changes. To examine this we tested rats in Pavlovi...

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Main Authors: Helen M Nasser, Yu-wei eChen, Kimberly eFiscella, Donna J Calu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbeh.2015.00289/full