"Poke And Delayed Drink Intertemporal Choice Task" (POKE-ADDICT) is an open-source, versatile, and cost-effective apparatus for intertemporal choice testing in rodents. It 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.
For more information see the preprint version of our paper Andrea Stefano Moro, Daniele Saccenti, Alessia Seccia, Mattia Ferro, Antonio Malgaroli, Jacopo Lamanna (2023) "Poke And Delayed Drink Intertemporal Choice Task (POKE-ADDICT): an open-source behavioral apparatus for intertemporal choice testing in rodents", bioRxiv
Please use the following bibtex reference to cite our paper:
@article {Moro2023.09.08.556794,
author = {Andrea Stefano Moro and Daniele Saccenti and Alessia Seccia and Mattia Ferro and Antonio Malgaroli and Jacopo Lamanna},
title = {Poke And Delayed Drink Intertemporal Choice Task (POKE-ADDICT): an open-source behavioral apparatus for intertemporal choice testing in rodents},
elocation-id = {2023.09.08.556794},
year = {2023},
doi = {10.1101/2023.09.08.556794},
publisher = {Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory},
URL = {https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2023/09/08/2023.09.08.556794},
journal = {bioRxiv}
}