Operant Procedures for Assessing Behavioral Flexibility in Rats

Anne Marie Brady; Stan B. Floresco

doi:10.3791/52387

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Operante Verfahren zur Bewertung der Verhaltensflexibilität bei Ratten

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Operant Procedures for Assessing Behavioral Flexibility in Rats

Operante Verfahren zur Bewertung der Verhaltensflexibilität bei Ratten

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February 15, 2015

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10.3791/52387-v

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Anne Marie Brady¹, Stan B. Floresco²

¹Department of Psychology,St. Mary’s College of Maryland, ²Department of Psychology,University of British Columbia

Summary

The ability to assess executive functions such as behavioral flexibility in rats is useful for investigating the neurobiology of cognition in both intact animals and disease models. Here we describe automated tasks for assessing strategy shifting and reversal learning, which are particularly sensitive to disruptions in prefrontal cortical networks.