Dokument: Vicarious reward unblocks associative learning about novel cues in male rats
| Titel: | Vicarious reward unblocks associative learning about novel cues in male rats | |||||||
| URL für Lesezeichen: | https://docserv.uni-duesseldorf.de/servlets/DocumentServlet?id=71557 | |||||||
| URN (NBN): | urn:nbn:de:hbz:061-20251128-120050-4 | |||||||
| Kollektion: | Publikationen | |||||||
| Sprache: | Englisch | |||||||
| Dokumententyp: | Wissenschaftliche Texte » Artikel, Aufsatz | |||||||
| Medientyp: | Text | |||||||
| Autoren: | Van Gurp, Sander [Autor] Hoog, Jochen [Autor] Kalenscher, Tobias [Autor] van Wingerden, Marijn [Autor] | |||||||
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| Beschreibung: | Many species, including rats, are sensitive to social signals and their valuation is important in social learning. Here we introduce a task that investigates if mutual reward delivery in male rats can drive associative learning. We found that when actor rats have fully learned a stimulus-self-reward association, adding a cue that predicted additional reward to a partner unblocked associative learning about this cue. By contrast, additional cues that did not predict partner reward remained blocked from acquiring positive associative value. Importantly, this social unblocking effect was still present when controlling for secondary reinforcement but absent when social information exchange was impeded, when mutual reward outcomes were disadvantageously unequal to the actor or when the added cue predicted reward delivery to an empty chamber. Taken together, these results suggest that mutual rewards can drive associative learning in rats and is dependent on vicariously experienced social and food-related cues. | |||||||
| Rechtliche Vermerke: | Originalveröffentlichung:
Van Gurp, S., Hoog, J., Kalenscher, T., & van Wingerden, M. (2020). Vicarious reward unblocks associative learning about novel cues in male rats [OnlineRessource]. ELife, 9, Article e60755. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.60755 | |||||||
| Lizenz: |  Dieses Werk ist lizenziert unter einer Creative Commons Namensnennung 4.0 International Lizenz | |||||||
| Fachbereich / Einrichtung: | Mathematisch- Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät | |||||||
| Dokument erstellt am: | 28.11.2025 | |||||||
| Dateien geändert am: | 28.11.2025 |
