Behavioral strategies

When making decisions, animals can employ many strategies, from relying on environmental stimuli to relying on internal biases. The roles of cortical regions in shaping these decision-making strategies remain unclear, often because we lack direct access to these internal variables. Here, we investigated how optogenetic inactivation of 29 motor, sensory, or association cortical regions affects decision-making strategies in 20 mice performing a virtual T-maze task in which they were rewarded for choosing the side with more visual cues. To determine mice’s underlying strategies on any trial, we f

…insight into the dynamic evolution of behavioral strategies over the course of learning. To overcome these limitations, we propose a dynamic psychophysical model that efficiently tracks trial-to-trial changes in behavior over the course of training. In this talk, I will d

…The usage of enacted strategies in working memory contexts allows us to achieve better results. Here it has been investigated whether animals are also able to support their working memory with behavioral strategies or show working memory processes in their behavior. Pigeons were tested in Skinner boxes and presented with various stimuli on a key located in the center that had to be answered with one of two choices. In