A Concrete Recipe to Reinvent and Innovate the Bachelor’s Program: Free Choice of Courses and Hackathon-Based Teaching

Moro, Andrea Stefano

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“…Investigators require costly equipment and substantial funding to maintain competitiveness. Without adequate resources, the likelihood of conducting innovative studies becomes exceedingly low 1 . Luckily, exploiting basic and established experimental approaches, such as Skinner boxes for studying animal behavior, can still produce valuable results.…”

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“…Without adequate resources, the likelihood of conducting innovative studies becomes exceedingly low. 1 Luckily, exploiting basic and established experimental approaches, such as Skinner boxes for studying animal behavior, can still produce valuable results. Nevertheless, even a very simple behavioral setup for rodents can represent a significant expense.…”

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Poke And Delayed Drink Intertemporal Choice Task (POKE‐ADDICT): An open‐source behavioral apparatus for intertemporal choice testing in rodents

Moro,

Saccenti,

Seccia

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Anim Models and Exp Med

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Advancements in neuroscience research present opportunities and challenges, requiring substantial resources and funding. To address this, we describe here “Poke And Delayed Drink Intertemporal Choice Task (POKE‐ADDICT)”, an open‐source, versatile, and cost‐effective apparatus for intertemporal choice testing in rodents. This allows quantification of delay discounting (DD), a cross‐species phenomenon observed in decision making which provides valuable insights into higher‐order cognitive functioning. In DD, the subjective value of a delayed reward is reduced as a function of the delay for its receipt. Using our apparatus, we implemented an effective intertemporal choice paradigm for the quantification of DD based on an adjusting delayed amount (ADA) algorithm using mango juice as a reward. Our paradigm requires limited training, a few 3D‐printed parts and inexpensive electrical components, including a Raspberry Pi control unit. Furthermore, it is compatible with several in vivo procedures and the use of nose pokes instead of levers allows for faster task learning. Besides the main application described here, the apparatus can be further extended to implement other behavioral tests and protocols, including standard operant conditioning. In conclusion, we describe a versatile and cost‐effective design based on Raspberry Pi that can support research in animal behavior, decision making and, more specifically, delay discounting.

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Poke And Delayed Drink Intertemporal Choice Task (POKE‐ADDICT): An open‐source behavioral apparatus for intertemporal choice testing in rodents

Moro,

Saccenti,

Seccia

et al. 2023

Anim Models and Exp Med

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“…On the other hand, investigators require costly equipment and substantial funding to maintain competitiveness. Without adequate resources, the likelihood of conducting innovative studies becomes exceedingly low (Moro, 2022). Luckily, exploiting basic and established experimental approaches, such as Skinner boxes for studying animal behavior, can still produce valuable results.…”

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Poke And Delayed Drink Intertemporal Choice Task (POKE-ADDICT): an open-source behavioral apparatus for intertemporal choice testing in rodents

Moro,

Saccenti,

Seccia

et al. 2023

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Advancements in neuroscience research present opportunities and challenges, requiring substantial resources and funding. To address this, we describe here “Poke And Delayed Drink Intertemporal Choice Task (POKE-ADDICT)”, an open-source, versatile, and cost-effective apparatus for intertemporal choice testing in rodents. This allows quantification of delay discounting (DD), a cross-species phenomenon observed in decision making which provides valuable insights into higher-order cognitive functioning. In DD, the subjective value of a delayed reward is reduced as a function of the delay for its receipt. Using our apparatus, we implemented an effective intertemporal choice paradigm for the quantification of DD based on an adjusting delayed amount (ADA) algorithm using mango juice as a reward. Our paradigm requires limited training and can be directly translated to human subjects using monetary rewards. Our apparatus comprises a few 3D-printed parts and inexpensive electrical components, including a Raspberry Pi control unit. Furthermore, it is compatible with severalin vivoprocedures and the use of nose pokes instead of levers allows for faster task learning. Beside the main application described here, the apparatus can be further extended to implement other behavioral tests and protocols, including standard operant conditioning. In conclusion, we describe a versatile and cost-effective design based on Raspberry Pi that can support research in animal behavior, decision making and, more specifically, delay discounting.

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Beyond Certificate Factory: Intellectual Innovation in Systems of Education

Valsiner

2022

Hu Arenas

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A Concrete Recipe to Reinvent and Innovate the Bachelor’s Program: Free Choice of Courses and Hackathon-Based Teaching

Cited by 4 publications

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Poke And Delayed Drink Intertemporal Choice Task (POKE‐ADDICT): An open‐source behavioral apparatus for intertemporal choice testing in rodents

Poke And Delayed Drink Intertemporal Choice Task (POKE‐ADDICT): An open‐source behavioral apparatus for intertemporal choice testing in rodents

Poke And Delayed Drink Intertemporal Choice Task (POKE-ADDICT): an open-source behavioral apparatus for intertemporal choice testing in rodents

Beyond Certificate Factory: Intellectual Innovation in Systems of Education

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