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dc.creatorHAMAME,CARLOS M
dc.creatorDELANO,PAUL H
dc.creatorROBLES,LUIS
dc.date2006-01-01
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dc.date.available2019-05-02T21:21:31Z
dc.identifierhttps://scielo.conicyt.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-97602006000200008
dc.identifier.urihttp://revistaschilenas.uchile.cl/handle/2250/81644
dc.descriptionRelevance of a neutral cue for performance in a two-choice visuospatial detection task was examined. Nine rats were trained, 5 with short intertrial interval (ITI) and 4 with long ITI, to detect a target (lateral lights) presented after a neutral-cue (central light). The removal of the neutral-cue decreased accuracy and increased response latencies and omissions. These results demonstrate that a neutral-cue, preceding the target, is relevant for the performance, suggesting that rats are highly expectant during the neutral-cue and reallocate attentional resources during ITI. Furthermore, latencies were higher, omissions were lower and the fall of accuracy was greater for rats with long than with short ITI, which could indicate that the neutral-cue was more relevant for the former group
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dc.languageen
dc.publisherSociedad de Biología de Chile
dc.relation10.4067/S0716-97602006000200008
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.sourceBiological Research v.39 n.2 2006
dc.subjectattention
dc.subjectexpectancy
dc.subjectneutral cue
dc.subjectattentional task
dc.subjectrat
dc.titleRelevance of a neutral cue in a two-choice detection task in the rat


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