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Multiple Temporal and Object-Based Strategies Across Learning for a Selective Detection Task in Mice.


ABSTRACT: Goal-directed behavior paradigms inevitably involve temporal processes, such as anticipation, expectation, timing, waiting, and withholding. And yet, amongst the vast use of object-based task paradigms, characterizations of temporal features are often neglected. Here, we longitudinally analyzed mice from naïve to expert performance in a somatosensory selective detection task. In addition to tracking standard measures from signal detection theory, we also characterized learning of temporal features. We find that mice transition from general sampling strategies to stimulus detection and stimulus discrimination. During these transitions, mice learn to wait as they anticipate an expected stimulus presentation and to time their response after a stimulus presentation. By establishing and implementing standardized measures, we show that the development of waiting and timing in the task overlaps with learning of stimulus detection and discrimination. We also investigated sex differences in temporal and object-based trajectories of learning, finding that males learn strategies idiosyncratically and that females learn strategies more sequentially and stereotypically. Overall, our findings emphasize multiple temporal strategies in learning for an object-based task and highlight the importance of considering diverse temporal and object-based features when characterizing behavioral and neuronal aspects of learning.

SUBMITTER: Marrero K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9948952 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Goal-Directed Learning is Multidimensional and Accompanied by Diverse and Widespread Changes in Neocortical Signaling.

Marrero Krista K   Aruljothi Krithiga K   Delgadillo Christian C   Kabbara Sarah S   Swatch Lovleen L   Zagha Edward E  

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 20240601


New tasks are often learned in stages with each stage reflecting a different learning challenge. Accordingly, each learning stage is likely mediated by distinct neuronal processes. And yet, most rodent studies of the neuronal correlates of goal-directed learning focus on individual outcome measures and individual brain regions. Here, we longitudinally studied mice from naïve to expert performance in a head-fixed, operant conditioning whisker discrimination task. In addition to tracking the prima  ...[more]

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