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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.

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

The correlation between NA and VH neurons did not differ between exploration and the instrumental task (1.60±0.72 during exploration; 1.70±0.70 during bar press; n = 5; p = 0.37, paired t test; Figure 1B).

NA recordings revealed that the NA core could lose its correlation with hippocampal theta activity (which persisted during the instrumental task) and acquire a synchronization with delta activity and low frequency events in the PFC.

Before the instrumental task was conducted, magazine training was carried out first to insure that all the subjects could make the simplest Pavlovian S-O association, to train the rats about the location of the reward, to teach them the signals associated with reward delivery (visual stimuli in the present experiment), to keep the rats aroused and to promote exploration [ 28].

In the instrumental tasks where the cost of food is relatively high due to an explicit work requirement and food scarcity, i.e., food-restriction, the effect of sucrose exposure early in life is robust.

Some of the instrumental tasks might be gender-dependent among the older generation.

Some of the instrumental tasks may be sex-dependent among elderly persons.

Also, a progressive decline in the ability to perform the instrumental tasks precedes a decline in ADLs [ 17], although the pattern of loss among the specific IADLs is not as distinct as that which has been reported for ADLs.

In order to carry out a quantitative analysis of the animals' performance during this instrumental task, we used the analytical procedure illustrated in Fig. 4B (see ref. 15 for details).