ArticleBehavioural processes2016
Mechanisms of impulsive choice: III. The role of reward processes.
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- 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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- Mechanisms of impulsive choice: Experiments to explore and models to map the empirical terrain.Learning & behavior · 2023Review
- Generalizability of time-based interventions: Effects of choice procedure and smaller-sooner delay.Behavioural processes · 2022Article
- Temporal order judgment of multisensory stimuli in rat and human.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- Cognitive and behavioral training interventions to promote self-control.Journal of experimental psychology. Animal learning and cognition · 2019Review
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- Nucleus accumbens core lesions induce sub-optimal choice and reduce sensitivity to magnitude and delay in impulsive choice tasks.Behavioural brain research · 2018Article
- The effects of a time-based intervention on experienced middle-aged rats.Behavioural processes · 2016Article
- Reward Contrast Effects on Impulsive Choice and Timing in Rats.Timing & time perception (Leiden, Netherlands) · 2016Article
- I can't wait: Methods for measuring and moderating individual differences in impulsive choice.Journal of agricultural & food industrial organization · 2015Article
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Abstract
Two experiments examined the relationship between reward processing and impulsive choice. In Experiment 1, rats chose between a smaller-sooner (SS) reward (1 pellet, 10 s) and a larger-later (LL) reward (1, 2, and 4 pellets, 30 s). The rats then experienced concurrent variable-interval 30-s schedules with variations in reward magnitude to evaluate reward magnitude discrimination. LL choice behavior positively correlated with reward magnitude discrimination. In Experiment 2, rats chose between an SS reward (1 pellet, 10 s) and an LL reward (2 and 4 pellets, 30 s). The rats then received either a reward intervention which consisted of concurrent fixed-ratio schedules associated with different magnitudes to improve their reward magnitude discrimination, or a control task. All rats then experienced a post-intervention impulsive choice task followed by a reward magnitude discrimination task to assess intervention efficacy. The rats that received the intervention exhibited increases in post-intervention LL choice behavior, and made more responses for larger-reward magnitudes in the reward magnitude discrimination task, suggesting that the intervention heightened sensitivities to reward magnitude. The results suggest that reward magnitude discrimination plays a key role in individual differences in impulsive choice, and could be a potential target for further intervention developments.
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