The behavioral signature of stepwise learning strategy in male rats and its neural correlate in the basal forebrain

Abstract Studies of associative learning have commonly focused on how rewarding outcomes are predicted by either sensory stimuli or animals’ actions. However, in many learning scenarios, reward delivery requires the occurrence of both sensory stimuli and animals’ actions in a specific order, in the...

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Main Authors: Hachi E. Manzur, Ksenia Vlasov, You-Jhe Jhong, Hung-Yen Chen, Shih-Chieh Lin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-40145-9