Rats' performance in a suboptimal choice procedure implemented in a natural-foraging analogue.

ABSTRACT: Rats and pigeons have shown striking differences in their behavior in the suboptimal choice procedure: while pigeons show a strong and consistent preference for the discriminative alternative, most studies performed with rats have found optimal preferences, and in the cases in which suboptimal preferences have been reported, those results have not been replicated. Currently, there is no consensus about the reasons for these discrepant results between species, but different explanations have been proposed either with an empirical base or exclusively in theoretical terms. In the latter category it has been proposed that the discrepancy might have arisen because of differences in the relationship between the natural foraging response of each species, and the response required in the laborator

SUBMITTER: Gonzalez-Barriga F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11530512 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature