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The 5-Choice Serial Reaction Time Task: A Task of Attention and Impulse Control for Rodents
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Behavior
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JoVE Journal Behavior
The 5-Choice Serial Reaction Time Task: A Task of Attention and Impulse Control for Rodents
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09:43 min

August 10, 2014

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  • 00:05Title
  • 01:305CSRTT (5-Choice Serial Reaction Time Task) Apparatus
  • 02:34Magazine Training
  • 03:395CSRTT Training and Testing
  • 06:23Results: Representative 5CSRTT Manipulations
  • 09:10Conclusion

Summary

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This protocol describes the 5-choice serial reaction time task, which is an operant based task used to study attention and impulse control in rodents. Test day challenges, which are modifications of the standard task, increase flexibility of the task and can be combined with other manipulations to more fully characterize behavior.

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