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None of the animals could recall the discrimination task, while the instrumental task of the test procedure was instantly performed correctly.

He also shared Mises's suppositions about value-freedom in economic science, the need to describe rather than evaluate preferences, and the instrumental task of science, namely, of showing how to achieve ends rather than assessing their value.

An important test case for our interpretation arises in a variant of Fiorillo et al.'s [ 15] task, as well as in the analogous instrumental task of Morris et al. [ 16], both involving trace conditioning.

18 We identified disability from limitations in performing basic activities of daily living and higher level instrumental tasks on the basis of an affirmative response to a validated questionnaire using the stem "Exclude any difficulties you expect to last less than three months.

In this instrumental task, the number of active lever presses required to obtain a sucrose reward is increased incrementally after each sucrose pellet earned.

Furthermore, our observations can be used for improving the present prediction methods for characterization of cooperative TFs and for devising new ones, an instrumental task towards unraveling the architecture of transcriptional networks.

The precise component of the instrumental task associated with the PFC-NA correlation cannot be discerned from our data.

In summary, physical, but not social, enrichment had a positive effect on animal capabilities of acquiring an instrumental task using a fixed-ratio schedule.

Rather than emulating by using their preferred method or (blindly) copying an alternative method that a conspecific demonstrated to solve an instrumental task, dogs selectively re-enacted the demonstrated action depending on the constraints of the situation of the demonstrator.

Selective lesions of the NAc core or shell, after training on a simple forced -choice instrumental task, had few major effects on performance under standard and challenge conditions.

Although the main results of the experiment have been reported in the previous section, we now provide additional information concerning two potential confounds of instrumental tasks in which the decision of whether or not to act is left to the participant.