Kivilcim Afacan-Seref

City College of New York | CCNY · Department of Biomedical Engineering

In dynamic environments, split-second sensorimotor decisions must be prioritized according to potential payoffs to maximize overall rewards. The impact of relative value on deliberative perceptual judgments has been examined extensively [1-6], but relatively little is known about value-biasing mechanisms in the common situation where physical evide...

Depression is often accompanied by cognitive impairment in humans and animals. Much less is known about how cognitive competence is related to vulnerability to depression. The present study investigated the effect of previous exposure to a learning task on a depressogenic manipulation. Male Wistar rats (n=20) underwent 3 days of testing in a Y-maze...