Both Obstacle Course and Control Course training enhance cognitive flexibility, reducing sessions needed for reversal learning in pairwise visual discrimination¶

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Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · causal r2 · q2 · i3 large
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q2 i3 OC and CC groups required significantly fewer sessions than the SH group to reach reversal criterion (80% accuracy on two successive sessions). → Gattas 2022 q2 i3 The OC group showed significantly higher accuracy than the SH group on reversal session five. → Gattas 2022 (2)

Evidence¶

Gattas 2022¶

Gattas, S., Collett, H. A., Huff, A. E., Creighton, S. D., Weber, S. E., Buckhalter, S. S., Manning, S. A., Ryait, H. S., McNaughton, B. L., & Winters, B. D. (2022). A rodent obstacle course procedure controls delivery of enrichment and enhances complex cognition. npj Science of Learning. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-022-00134-x

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Touchscreen pairwise visual discrimination task with reversal in the four-group design (n = 40). Independent samples t-tests revealed significant differences between the OC and SH groups, t(18) = −6.104, p < 0.001, and the CC and SH groups, t(18) = −5.273, p < 0.001.

"there was a group main effect in the number of sessions to reach criterion (achieving 80% accuracy or higher on two successive sessions), F(3,36) = 12.819, p < 0.001, partial η2 = 0.517"

Gattas 2022 (2)¶

Gattas, S., Collett, H. A., Huff, A. E., Creighton, S. D., Weber, S. E., Buckhalter, S. S., Manning, S. A., Ryait, H. S., McNaughton, B. L., & Winters, B. D. (2022). A rodent obstacle course procedure controls delivery of enrichment and enhances complex cognition. npj Science of Learning. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-022-00134-x

q2 · i3 · causal · r2

Post hoc analysis of mean group accuracy across the first five reversal sessions showed a session effect, F(3,36) = 61.723, p < 0.001, partial η2 = 0.632, and an effect of group during session 5, F(3,36) = 5.606, p = 0.003, partial η2 = 0.318.

"Independent sample t-tests revealed that the OC group performed with signi ficantly higher accuracy compared to the SH group on session five, t(18) = 3.719, p = 0.002"

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Visual Processing — outcome: instruction changes it

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