Table 3.

Behavioral measures of contingent performance on the five-choice serial reaction time task assessed concurrently within vivo microdialysis over 2 consecutive days

Day 1Day 2
0–20 min20–40 min40–60 min0–20 min20–40 min40–60 min
Total trials121  ± 3 (103–131)125  ± 3 (108–147)118  ± 4 (93–134)122  ± 5 (91–141)123  ± 6 (88–142)125  ± 4 (101–140)
Correct trials69  ± 7 (39–89)74  ± 7 (52–126)66  ± 6 (23–95)70  ± 8 (38–113)76  ± 10 (15–114)77  ± 8 (35–105)
Accuracy (%)80  ± 2 (71–86)81  ± 2 (75–89)79  ± 1 (74–86)78  ± 2 (67–91)81  ± 3 (69–89)83  ± 2 (73–90)
Omissions19  ± 3 (8–32)19  ± 3 (4–36)26  ± 5 (7–61)19  ± 4 (1–37)20  ± 6 (5–67)23  ± 4 (11–45)
Premature trials17  ± 3 (6–35)16  ± 5 (3–47)9  ± 3 (0–28)14  ± 2 (8–26)11  ± 2 (3–22)9  ± 2 (2–18)
Correct latency (csec)66  ± 3 (57–86)65  ± 3 (53–81)69  ± 4 (49–90)67  ± 5 (55–103)62  ± 3 (51–76)68  ± 5 (54–90)
  • The data are mean (±SEM) responses, choice accuracy (%), or response latencies (csec), collapsed over 20 min blocks (n = 10). The numbers in parentheses show the minimum and maximum values for each 20 min block.