title: [Alternative animal behavior: a model and its statistical characteristics].
abstract: The rats' alternative behaviour in T-maze at simultaneous two-sided food refreshment in 13 trials a day during 6 days has been studied. It has been found that in the first testing days the indexes of alternative behaviour of animals correspond to the characteristics of the random alternation. However, on the 5-6th day of testing in the overwhelming majority of rats the true deviation of alternation index above or below than the theoretical values has been revealed. A question on the existence of two strategies of cognitive behaviour alteration and perseveration in rat population is under discussion.
authors.forename: A Ia
authors.initials: AIa
authors.lastname: Kaplan
authors.forename: M Iu
authors.initials: MIu
authors.lastname: Borodovskiĭ
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D003071:Cognition; D008297:Male; D008433:Mathematics; D008954:Models, Biological; D015233:Models, Statistical; D051381:Rats; D012054:Reinforcement, Psychology
vernacular_title: Al'ternativnoe povedenie zhivotnykh: model' i statisticheskie kharakteristiki.