Given that the rats had no experience of swimming in the pool before the test trial, the performance on the test trial confirms the effectiveness of passive spatial learning for acquiring information about where a goal is situated.
We overcame this problem by optimally linearly combining the response along frequency and time for each subject with an objective and automatic decoding procedure and evaluating the decoder's performance on the test trials, which the decoder did not see during training.
Participants' performance on the test trials was used to assess how much they had learned the cue-outcome probabilities.
Performance on the first trial of each problem was determined by trial and error.
Safety issues prevent initial trials and errors and require good performance on the first trial just from explanations and observation, exactly what is missing for blindfolded activities and difficult for complex movements with force accuracy requirements.
Further, using partial correlations functional connectivity analyses on each trial, the authors demonstrated that increased cingulo-opercular activity was predictive of better word-recognition performance on the next trial.
In contrast to the independent feature weighting view, the episodic retrieval account assumes that every trial is stored as a bound episodic memory, and that automatic retrieval of these memories affects performance on the current trial.
This dose range of mecamylamine did not affect performance on the first trial when the rats were naïve to the array to be learned.
In-between task-related bouts of visuospatial processing, the neuronal brain was doing other things, such as anticipating the upcoming stimulus, or reflecting on performance on the previous trial.
