Reinforcement learning across the rat estrous cycle.

Reinforcement learning, the process by which an organism flexibly adapts behavior in response to reward and punishment, is vital for the proper execution of everyday behaviors, and its dysfunction has been implicated in a wide variety of mental disorders. Here, we use computational trial-by-trial analysis of data of female rats performing a probabilistic reward learning task and demonstrate that core computational processes underlying value-based decision making fluctuate across the estrous cycle, providing a neuroendocrine substrate by which gonadal hormones may influence adaptive behavior.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Psychoneuroendocrinology

• Publication date

  2019-02-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2018.09.016PMID 30273796
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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