ArticleFrontiers in integrative neuroscience2014
Isolating the delay component of impulsive choice in adolescent rats.
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- The Role of the Serotonergic System in Time Perception: A Systematic Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Pooled it
- Experimental reductions of delay discounting and impulsive choice: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2018Pooled it
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- Generalizability of time-based interventions: Effects of choice procedure and smaller-sooner delay.Behavioural processes · 2022Article
- Impulsivity and risk-seeking as Bayesian inference under dopaminergic control.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2022Article
- Time perception and patience: individual differences in interval timing precision predict choice impulsivity in European starlings, Sturnus vulgaris.Animal cognition · 2021Article
- Adolescent nicotine and footshock exposure augments adult nicotine self-administration and drug-seeking without affecting baseline anxiety-like behaviour or stress responsivity in male rats.Psychopharmacology · 2021Article
- A time-based intervention to treat impulsivity in male and female rats.Behavioural brain research · 2020Article
- Changing Delay Discounting and Impulsive Choice: Implications for Addictions, Prevention, and Human Health.Perspectives on behavior science · 2019Article
- Cognitive and behavioral training interventions to promote self-control.Journal of experimental psychology. Animal learning and cognition · 2019Review
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- Adolescent impulsivity as a sex-dependent and subtype-dependent predictor of impulsivity, alcohol drinking and dopamine DAddiction biology · 2019Article
- Trait determinants of impulsive behavior: a comprehensive analysis of 188 rats.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Females in the forefront: time-based intervention effects on impulsive choice and interval timing in female rats.Animal cognition · 2018Article
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Abstract
Impulsive choice-the preference for small immediate rewards over larger delayed rewards-has been linked to various psychological conditions ranging from behavioral disorders to addiction. These links highlight the critical need to dissect the various components of this multifaceted behavioral trait. Delay discounting tasks allow researchers to study an important factor of this behavior: how the subjective value of a rewards changes over a delay period. However, existing methods of delay discounting include a confound of different reward sizes within the procedure. Here we present a new approach of using a single constant reward size to assess delay discounting. A complementary approach could hold delay constant and assess the utility of changing quantities of a reward. Isolating these behavioral components can advance our ability to explore the behavioral complexity of impulsive choice. We present in detail the methods for isolating delay, and further capitalize on this method by pairing it with a standard peak interval task to test whether individual variation in delay discounting can be explained by differences in perception of time in male and female adolescent rats. We find that rats that were more precise in discriminating time intervals were also less impulsive in their choice. Our data suggest that differences in timing and delay discounting are not causally related, but instead are more likely influenced by a common factor. Further, the mean-level change in our measure between post-natal day 28 and 42 suggests this test may be capturing a developmental change in this factor. In summary, this new method of isolating individual components of impulsive choice (delay or quantity) can be efficiently applied in either adolescent or adult animal models and may help elucidate the mechanisms underlying impulsivity and its links to psychological disorders.
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