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SUBMITTER: Garr E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6432170 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) 20190321 4
It is tempting to equate the automatization of an action sequence with the formation of a habit. However, the term "habit" specifically implies a failure to evaluate future consequences to guide behavior. To test if automatized sequences become habitual, we trained rats on an action sequence task for either 20 or 60 d and then conducted reward devaluation tests. While both groups showed equivalent goal-directed performance of the trained action sequence on a global measure of behavior, sequence ...[more]