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Operant Procedures for Assessing Behavioral Flexibility in Rats
 

Operant Procedures for Assessing Behavioral Flexibility in Rats

Article DOI: 10.3791/52387
February 15th, 2015

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Summary February 15th, 2015

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.

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