Table 1.
Outcome Variables | Description |
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Switches | Total number of times within the 1-hour testing session that the reward contingencies of the two stimuli reversed |
Trials to First Criterion | Number of trials completed by the subject before attaining the first criterion (8 consecutive target responses) |
Trials for Reversal 1 | Trials taken by the subject to make 8 consecutive correct responses following the first reversal of reward contingency (i.e. number of trials completed by the subject within the second block of testing) |
Premature Responses | Total number of responses made before presentation of stimuli across all trials |
Omissions | Total number of trials in which no response was made |
Mean Target Latency | Mean latency to respond to the target stimulus |
Mean Non-Target Latency | Mean latency to respond to the non-target stimulus |
Mean Reward Latency | Mean latency to collect rewards |
Target Win-Stay Ratio | Metric of subjects’ tendency to choose the target (more frequently rewarded) stimulus again after choosing, and being rewarded by, that stimulus in the preceding trial |
Target Lose-Shift Ratio | Metric of subjects’ tendency to choose the non-target (less frequently rewarded) stimulus after being punished by the target stimulus in the preceding trial |
Non-Target Win-Stay Ratio | Metric of subjects’ tendency to choose the non-target stimulus again after being rewarded by that stimulus in the preceding trial. |
Non-Target Lose-Shift Ratio | Metric of subjects’ tendency to choose the target stimulus after being punished by the non-target stimulus in the preceding trial |
Total Trials | Total number of trials completed within entire testing session |
Note: Bold = primary outcome variable