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SUBMITTER: Wang AY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3651899 | biostudies-literature | 2013 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wang Alice Y AY Miura Keiji K Uchida Naoshige N
Nature neuroscience 20130414 5
Decision making requires an actor to not only steer behavior toward specific goals but also determine the optimal vigor of performance. Current research and models have largely focused on the former problem of how actions are directed while overlooking the latter problem of how they are energized. Here we designed a self-paced decision-making paradigm, which showed that rats' performance vigor globally fluctuates with the net value of their options, suggesting that they maintain long-term estima ...[more]