Distinct Changes in Cortical Acetylcholine and Noradrenaline Efflux during Contingent and Noncontingent Performance of a Visual Attentional Task

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 1 Day 2
0–20 min 20–40 min 40–60 min 0–20 min 20–40 min 40–60 min
Total trials 121  ± 3 (103–131) 125  ± 3 (108–147) 118  ± 4 (93–134) 122  ± 5 (91–141) 123  ± 6 (88–142) 125  ± 4 (101–140)
Correct trials 69  ± 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)
Omissions 19  ± 3 (8–32) 19  ± 3 (4–36) 26  ± 5 (7–61) 19  ± 4 (1–37) 20  ± 6 (5–67) 23  ± 4 (11–45)
Premature trials 17  ± 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.

  1. The Journal of Neuroscience vol. 21 no. 13 4908-4914
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