a) In addition to measuring when a restaurant increased
from 1 to 3 pellets, we also measured different variables after the restaurant
dispensed 3 pellets (“previous 3”) (i.e. currently dispensing 1
pellet (filled circle), but dispensed 3 pellets on a previous sub-session of
that day (unfilled circle)). b) The rats waited for 1-pellet
restaurants similarly as long as previous 3-pellet restaurants on both VEH
(left) and CNO days (right). c) Interestingly, post-reward
lingering revealed that previous 3-pellet restaurants were valued more than
1-pellet restaurants, as the rats lingered longer at these restaurants post
reward consumption. d) SWR rates during the Waiting epoch were
greater for previous 3-pellet restaurants on both VEH (left) and CNO (right)
days. e) SWR rates during the Lingering epoch did not differentiate
between previous 3-pellet restaurants and 1-pellet restaurants on VEH days
(left), though it did on CNO days (right). VEH = blue circle, CNO = red circle.
* p < 0.05; ** p < 0.01; *** p < 0.001.