title: When good enough is best.
abstract: In this issue of Neuron, Rinberg et al. show that mice use a speed-accuracy tradeoff in odor discrimination. Shorter sampling results in high performance for easy problems, and enforced longer sampling results in higher accuracy for difficult problems, but mice freely choose intermediate sampling durations and accuracy varies with difficulty. Reward value and task requirements may determine sampling time choice and performance levels.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
authors.forename: Leslie M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Kay
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Beshel
authors.forename: Claire
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Martin
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004193:Discrimination Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D051379:Mice; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology*; D012903:Smell / Q000502:physiology*