Dissociating task acquisition from expression during learning reveals latent knowledge

Autor: Kishore V. Kuchibhotla, Tom Hindmarsh Sten, Eleni S. Papadoyannis, Sarah Elnozahy, Kelly A. Fogelson, Rupesh Kumar, Yves Boubenec, Peter C. Holland, Srdjan Ostojic, Robert C. Froemke
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 1-13 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-10089-0
Popis: Performance is generally used as a metric to assay whether an animal has learnt a particular perceptual task. Here the authors demonstrate that in the context of probe trials without the possibility of reward, animals perform the correct instrumental response suggesting a latent knowledge of the task much before it is manifest in their performance.
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