Vicarious reward unblocks associative learning about novel cues in male rats

Many species, including rats, are sensitive to social signals and their valuation is important in social learning. Here we introduce a task that investigates if mutual reward delivery in male rats can drive associative learning. We found that when actor rats have fully learned a stimulus-self-reward...

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Main Authors: Sander van Gurp, Jochen Hoog, Tobias Kalenscher, Marijn van Wingerden
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2020-10-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/60755