Modifying the platform-mediated avoidance task: A new protocol to study active avoidance within a social context in rats.

The platform-mediated active avoidance (PMA) task has been used to study the behavioral and neural mechanisms of a decision-based form of active avoidance. Across 10 days of PMA conditioning, rats learn to avoid a tone-signaled footshock by moving to a safe platform at the cost of forfeiting sucrose...

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Main Authors: Cassandra Kramer, Shannon Ruble, Troy D Fort, Lexe West, Maria M Diehl
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2025-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0321776
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