Sex differences in exploration-exploitation strategies during home-cage decision making
Chantelle L. Murrell, Alex A. Legaria, Katie B McCullough, Andrew Nwacha, Monsurat Ololade Nasiru, Sebastian Alves Ferreira Dias, Rebecca Chase, Mason R. Barrett, Matt Gaidica, Naoki Hiratani, Meaghan C. Creed, Joseph D. Dougherty, Susan E. Maloney, Alexxai V. Kravitz
In 136 mice on FED3 tasks, males showed slightly higher win-stay in all three choice tasks, with higher accuracy in a deterministic bandit but not a probabilistic one.
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