Conspecific odors as cues for runway behavior in mice

Davis, Stephen F.

doi:10.3758/bf03335534

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“…Both the opportunity to explore and the access to information may be important determinants of behaviour (COWAN, 1983). In solving a maze task rodents utilize extramaze cues as well as intramaze cues, but many studies point to a major role of extramaze cues and a minor concern of intramaze ones (OLTON & SAMUELSON, 1976;SUZUKI et al, 1980;O'KEEFE, 1983), although it is known that odour trails are able to improve performance in a maze (DAVIS, 1970;MEANS et al, 1971;OLTON & COLLISON, 1979). However, little is reported about individual differences in using extramaze or intramaze cues.…”

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Individual Differences in Behavioural Reaction To a Changing Environment in Mice and Rats

Koolhaas¹,

Benus²,

Oortmerssen³

1987

Behav

171

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Individual Differences in Behavioural Reaction To a Changing Environment in Mice and Rats

Koolhaas¹,

Benus²,

Oortmerssen³

1987

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171

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“…The experimental choice was between filter paper with or without conspecific cues. We expected the B. dubia cockroaches to choose conspecific cues over no cues, as this effect has been documented in a wide range of species and modalities ( e.g ., acoustic signals in songbirds: Farrell et al, 2012 ; chemical cues in cockroaches: Rivault, Cloarec & Sreng, 1998 , fish: Golub, Vermette & Brown, 2005 , and rodents: Davis, 1970 ; presence of conspecific offspring in frogs: Rudolf & Rodel, 2005 ).…”

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Conspecific and heterospecific cueing in shelter choices of Blaptica dubia cockroaches

Freeberg,

Risner,

Lang

et al. 2024

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Background Like many cockroaches, Argentinian wood roaches, Blaptica dubia, prefer darker shelters over lighter shelters. In three experiments, we asked whether chemical cues from other roaches might influence shelter choice, a process known as conspecific or heterospecific cueing, depending on whether the cues come from an individual of the same or a different species, respectively. Methods Each experiment involved trials with focal B. dubia cockroaches in testing arenas containing plastic shelters of varying levels of darkness, with filter paper under each shelter acting as a carrier for chemical cues. In Experiment 1, we tested female and male B. dubia cockroaches with two shelters matched for darkness but differing in cues (conspecific vs. none). The shelter with no cue contained a blank filter paper as a control. In Experiment 2 (conspecific cueing) and Experiment 3 (heterospecific cueing), we tested B. dubia cockroach choices for lighter or darker shelters with filter papers containing chemical cues of other roaches or no chemical cues. For the conspecific cueing study of Experiment 2, we used chemical cues from other B. dubia cockroaches. In contrast, for the heterospecific cueing study of Experiment 3, we used chemical cues from a different species, the death’s head cockroach, Blaberus craniifer. Results In Experiment 1, B. dubia cockroaches overwhelmingly preferred shelters with conspecific chemical cues over darkness-matched shelters without cues. In Experiments 2 and 3, they strongly preferred darker shelters, especially when chemical cues were present. Additionally, they were more likely to be under the lighter shelter when chemical cues were present there. These results reveal that the public information B. dubia cockroaches gain from chemical cues—including those from other species—can drive shelter choices in this species.

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“…A subsequent study by Seago, Ludvigson, & Remley (1970) replicated this finding, and further indicated that anosmic Ss were incapable of learning the pattern. A study by Davis (1970), using mice as Ss, also corroberated the Ludvigson & Sytsma (1967) data. Since the publication of the Ludvigson & Sytsma (1967) study, research has indicated the strong possibility that odor may be an influential factor in a number of animal learning phenomena, such as latent extinction (pratt & Ludvigson, 1970), the depression effect (DaviS & Ludvigson, 1969), the partial reinforcement extinction effect (Prytula, Bridges, Anderson, & Hayes, 1972;Davis, 1973;Prytula, Cox, & Bridges, 1973) performance (Morrison & Ludvigson, 1970;Means, Hardy, Gabriel, & Uphold, 1971).…”

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Apparent double alternation in the rat: A failure to replicate

Pitt

Davis

Brown

1973

Bull. Psychon. Soc.

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Two groups of rats, run under odor-maximizing and odor-minimizing trial sequences, served as Ss in a three-phase study investigating the role of olfactory cues in the acquisition, extinction, and reacquisition of double-alternation patterning in the runway. The 104 acquisition trials and 8 extinction trials were run in an apparatus having hardware-cloth tops. The tops of the apparatus were covered by a transparent plastic sheet during the 32 reacquisition trials. During acquisition, double-alternation patterning failed to develop. However, significant extinction differences developed in the goal measure. During reacquisition, significant double-alternation patterning was shown by the odor-maximizing Ss. The results strongly suggest that the effective olfactory cues are airborne, and dissipate appreciably, but not completely, in the runway utilizing wire-mesh tops.

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Conspecific odors as cues for runway behavior in mice

Cited by 12 publications

References 7 publications

Individual Differences in Behavioural Reaction To a Changing Environment in Mice and Rats

Individual Differences in Behavioural Reaction To a Changing Environment in Mice and Rats

Conspecific and heterospecific cueing in shelter choices of Blaptica dubia cockroaches

Apparent double alternation in the rat: A failure to replicate

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