Human Vicarious Trial and Error Is Predictive of Spatial Navigation Performance

When learning new environments, rats often pause at decision points and look back and forth over their possible trajectories as if they were imagining the future outcome of their actions, a behavior termed “Vicarious trial and error” (VTE). As the animal learns the environmental configuration, rats...

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Main Authors: Diogo Santos-Pata, Paul F. M. J. Verschure
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00237/full