ArticleJournal of the experimental analysis of behavior2017
Theoretical implications of quantitative properties of interval timing and probability estimation in mouse and rat.
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- Rodents monitor their error in self-generated duration on a single trial basis.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Quantitative properties of the creation and activation of a cell-intrinsic duration-encoding engram.Frontiers in computational neuroscience · 2022Article
- Relative salience signaling within a thalamo-orbitofrontal circuit governs learning rate.Current biology : CB · 2021Article
- Choice history effects in mice and humans improve reward harvesting efficiency.PLoS computational biology · 2021Article
- The Strength of Alpha-Beta Oscillatory Coupling Predicts Motor Timing Precision.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2019Article
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- The effect of attention and working memory on the estimation of elapsed time.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Numbers and brains.Learning & behavior · 2017Article
- Finding numbers in the brain.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017Review
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Abstract
In three experiments with mice ( Mus musculus ) and rats (Rattus norvigicus), we used a switch paradigm to measure quantitative properties of the interval-timing mechanism. We found that: 1) Rodents adjusted the precision of their timed switches in response to changes in the interval between the short and long feed latencies (the temporal goalposts). 2) The variability in the timing of the switch response was reduced or unchanged in the face of large trial-to-trial random variability in the short and long feed latencies. 3) The adjustment in the distribution of switch latencies in response to changes in the relative frequency of short and long trials was sensitive to the asymmetry in the Kullback-Leibler divergence. The three results suggest that durations are represented with adjustable precision, that they are timed by multiple timers, and that there is a trial-by-trial (episodic) record of feed latencies in memory.
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