Information-seeking in mice (Mus musculus) during visual discrimination: study using a distractor elimination paradigm
Yuya Hataji, Kazuhiro Goto · 2024
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Yuya Hataji and Kazuhiro Goto test whether mice seek facts when a visual task is hard in 2024. Some animals look for more data when they do not know an answer. That act is a sign of knowing one's own limits. Most past work used primates, not rodents. Mice are the most common lab animal, so the gap matters.
Mice learned to tell apart images that differ in brightness or tilt. Small gaps made the task hard. A choice let mice remove wrong options and lock in a right answer. Mice used that choice more on hard trials. Later tests showed they leaned on cues in the setting, not just inner doubt. The authors say more work must rule out simpler causes.
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| CREATOR | Yuya Hataji, Kazuhiro Goto |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 62 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |