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With all four gambles tested, both animals avoided the low safe reward and preferred the high safe reward to the gamble.
We assessed CEs psychometrically from choices between a safe reward and a binary, equiprobable gamble (p = 0.5, each option), using simultaneously presented bar cues for safe reward and gamble.
Based on the animal's choice between the safe reward and gamble, the safe amount was adjusted on the subsequent trial.
Each PEST sequence consisted of several consecutive trials during which one constant gamble was presented as a choice option against the safe reward.
On the initial trial of a PEST sequence, the amount of safe reward was chosen randomly from the interval 0.1 to 1.2 ml.
We varied pseudorandomly the safe reward across the whole range of values (flat probability distribution), thus setting the tested values irrespectively of the animal's previous choices.
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Some critics have carped that it's retro, safe, rewarded for its comfortable landings within the contours of "quality".
This interpretation is further validated by the inverse association between dorsolateral PFC activation in response to safe rewards and both impulsivity and risk-taking traits (Fig. 2).
When ε fell below the exit rule, the PEST procedure terminated, and the indifference value was calculated by taking the mean of the final two safe rewards.
Also, none of the neurons with category-specific responses (24 neurons) in the categorization task had significant difference in response to risky and safe rewards in the memory guided saccade task.
Healthy volunteers show moderate risk aversion (preferring smaller, safer rewards) when comparing possible gains; when comparing possible losses, they show a tendency toward risk seeking (avoiding more certain, but smaller, losses) (31).
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