On the final day of testing (day 8), to ensure that the reward itself was not providing an olfactory cue, the rewarded arm was only baited after the arm choice had been made by the animal.
On the final day of testing (day 10), to ensure that the reward itself was not providing an olfactory cue, the rewarded arm was only baited after the arm choice had been made by the mice (post-choice baiting).
The reward itself has been on offer since June.
Plus, the Academy likes to reward itself for taking a risk here and there.
Which, for some of us, isn't a price to pay; it's the reward itself.
"Management," the late JK Galbraith wrote in 1967, "does not go out ruthlessly to reward itself – a sound management is one expected to exercise restraint".
Consider the description of executive behavior offered by John Kenneth Galbraith in his 1967 book, "The New Industrial State": "Management does not go out ruthlessly to reward itself -- a sound management is expected to exercise restraint".
And they are so panicked by talk in Congress about taxing their enormous bonuses (the industry is expected to reward itself with tens of billions of dollars this year) that they have decided not to take all of that money in cash.
