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Studying Neurogenetics in Fish Mating Patterns
Mate choice plays an important role in reproductive isolation and hybridization between species. Mating preferences are often learned in early social development; therefore an
individual's social environment can have ...
Exploring the Role of the Nucleus Accumbens Core in Cocaine Satiety in Goal-Directed Versus Habitual Responding
When an animal is conducting instrumental behavior (e.g., pressing a lever to earn food), responding can be guided by two different response strategies: goal-directed or habitual. Experimenters are able to determine an ...
The Effect of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy on Laboratory Pain and Emotion: An ERP Study
Acceptance training has been used to help individuals cope with negative emotion and pain (Hayes et al., 1999), however little is known about the neural mechanisms mediating these effects. The present study examined whether ...
Behavioral Factors Governing the Extinction of Ambiguous Threat Cues
(2019-04-22)
The purpose of this experiment was to examine the cognitive mechanisms by which an animal uses associations to learn about temporally ambiguous aversive events. Traditionally, associative learning using forwards conditioning, ...