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Time and probability in the mouse
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Time and probability in the mouse
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Kheifets
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Aaron
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1985-
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Aaron Kheifets
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Gallistel
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Charles Randy
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Charles Randy Gallistel
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Feldman
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Jacob
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Matzel
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Louis
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Louis Matzel
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Maloney
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Laurence
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Laurence Maloney
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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theses
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2014
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eng
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I describe a series of four experiments studying decision under uncertainty in the mouse and argue that their results demand a more sophisticated, information-‐processing, account of mouse behavior than current popular models. The tasks are based on the switch procedure of Balci, Freestone and Gallistel (2009), which employs interval-‐timing behavior to study decision under uncertainty. I show that: 1. Subjects respond to changes in task-‐relevant probabilities abruptly. 2. The number of trials before they detect a change in probability is predicted by the Kullback-‐Leibler divergence between the Bernoulli distributions of the two probabilities. 3. Subjects are capable of decreasing their timing variability. 4. Subjects differentiate between added exogenous temporal variability and their endogenous timing variability. I argue that these four results are best understood in an information-‐processing framework and modeling mouse behavior with algorithms that explicitly represent abstract quantities such as probability, exogenous variability and objective time.
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Psychology
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iv, 127 p. : ill.
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Ph.D.
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Includes bibliographical references
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by Aaron Kheifets
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Probability learning
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Uncertainty
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Mice--Behavior
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doi:10.7282/T3154F4T
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ETD doctoral
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Aaron
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2013-11-08 12:26:13
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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