Exploring the limits of learning: Segregation of information integration and response selection is required for learning a serial reversal task.

Animals are proposed to learn the latent rules governing their environment in order to maximize their chances of survival. However, rules may change without notice, forcing animals to keep a memory of which one is currently at work. Rule switching can lead to situations in which the same stimulus/re...

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Main Authors: Camilo Juan Mininni, B Silvano Zanutto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5659652?pdf=render