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Universitat de València
2015
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- Social interaction and conditional self-discrimination under a paradigm of avoidance and positive reinforcement in Wistar rats Julio C. Penagos-Corzo Andrés M. Pérez-Acosta Ingrid Hernández Psicología The experiment reported here uses a conditional self-discrimination task to examine the influence of social interaction on the facilitation of selfdiscrimination in rats. The study is based on a previous report (PenagosCorzo et al., 2011) showing positive evidence of such facilitation, but extending the exposition to social interaction conditions prior to training. Specifically, rats were assigned to three conditions with different levels of social interaction and exposed to two conditional self-discrimination tasks, under an avoidance and positive reinforcement paradigm, where they had to discriminate their own internal state (with or without methylphenidate). Our results indicate that conditional self-discrimination was higher in groups with higher social interaction than in those with lower interaction and support the conclusion that self-discrimination learning curves for different degrees of social interaction positively increased with number of sessions and level of interaction. 2015 artículo científico 0211-2159 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=16932960001 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=169 Psicológica application/pdf Universitat de València Psicológica (España) Num.1 Vol.36