We find that rats, like primates and humans, perform better on the random dot motion task when they take more time to respond. We provide evidence that this improvement is due to stimulus integration. Rats increase their response latency modestly as a function of trial difficulty. Rats can modulate response latency more strongly on a trial by trial basis, apparently on the basis of reward-related parameters.
@article{arxiv.1206.0311,
title = {Speed and accuracy in a visual motion discrimination task as performed by rats},
author = {Pamela Reinagel and Emily Mankin and Adam Calhoun},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.0311},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
Content is identical to a poster presented at the 2009 Society for Neuroscience meeting: Reinagel P, Mankin E, and Calhoun A (2009) Speed and accuracy in a visual motion discrimination task as performed by rats. Program No. 281.12. 2009 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. Chicago, IL: Society for Neuroscience, 2009. Online