RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Some rats take more time to make easier perceptual decisions
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 2021.10.26.465587
DO 10.1101/2021.10.26.465587
A1 Reinagel, Pamela
YR 2021
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2021/10/28/2021.10.26.465587.abstract
AB When subjects control the duration of sampling a sensory stimulus before making a decision, they generally take more time to make more difficult sensory discriminations. This has been found to be true of many rats performing visual tasks. But two rats performing visual motion discrimination were found to have inverted chronometric response functions: their average response time paradoxically increased with stimulus strength. We hypothesize that corrective decision reversals may underlie this unexpected observation.Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest.