Development of an Automated Open Field for Examining Cognitive Processes in Pigeons

Leising, Kenneth J.; Parenteau, Michael; Garlick, Dennis; Blaisdell, Aaron P.

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“…Leising, Garlick, and Blaisdell (2007) reported overshadowing in both the touchscreen and ARENA preparations. Subjects were given a linear arrangement of eight visually defined circles on a touchscreen-equipped monitor or eight (or six in Experiment 2) ARENA modules.…”

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“…Overshadowing between landmarks, however, has been found in a variety of vertebrate species, ranging from humans (Chamizo, Aznar-Casanova, & Artigas, 2002) to pigeons (Cheng, 1989; Leising et al, 2007; Lechelt & Spetch, 1997; Sánchez-Moreno, Rodrigo, Chamizo, & Mackintosh, 1999; Spetch, 1995). These findings, as do those from blocking studies discussed above, favor an associative account of spatial learning.…”

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“…Top panel: Design and hypothetical temporal representations of Experiment 1 of Leising et al (2007). A 60-s stimulus served as the light and a 10-s stimulus served as the tone.…”

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“…Top panel depicts the overshadowing procedure during training used by Leising, Garlick, and Blaisdell (2007). Bottom panel depicts the nonreinforced test trials.…”

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Associative Basis of Landmark Learning and Integration in Vertebrates

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2009

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Early work on spatial navigation evaluated what stimuli (kinesthetic or extra-maze) support small-scale navigation and the nature of the underlying learning (place versus response) process. Contemporary research has focused primarily on how cues interact to determine spatial search. This review covers three general findings from research on landmark-based spatial search in vertebrates. First, pigeons and rats encode simple spatial maps in both open-field and touchscreen environments. Second, a nascent literature shows how simple maps can be integrated into complex maps through higher-order associative processes. The spatial-integration hypothesis provides an associative mechanism for spatial mapping that serves as an alternative to a previously posed configural mechanism. Finally, the evidence for associative cue-competition phenomena in landmark learning is reviewed-focusing on blocking and overshadowing. These findings support a role for associative learning in spatial tasks and provide a powerful explanatory framework for understanding cue integration and competition effects in landmark learning.

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“…Top panel: Design and hypothetical temporal representations of Experiment 1 of Leising et al (2007). A 60-s stimulus served as the light and a 10-s stimulus served as the tone.…”

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“…Top panel depicts the overshadowing procedure during training used by Leising, Garlick, and Blaisdell (2007). Bottom panel depicts the nonreinforced test trials.…”

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“…This technology was later incorporated into an ARENA (Automated Remote Environmental Navigation Apparatus) system based on wireless modules (Leising, Garlick, Parenteau, & Blaisdell, 2009). The modules were square plastic devices that could serve as targets or landmarks.…”

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ARENA 2.0: The next generation automated remote environmental navigation apparatus to facilitate cross-species comparisons in behavior and cognition

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A series of experiments illustrated the effectiveness and flexibility of a newly developed Automated Remote Environmental Navigation Apparatus (ARENA) as an alternative to traditional operant and open-field procedures. This system improves the concept developed by Badelt and Blaisdell (Behavior Research Methods, 40, 613-621, 2008; see also Leising, Garlick, Parenteau, & Blaisdell in Behavioural Processes, 81, 105-113, 2009), with significant upgrades in flexibility and reliability, as well as a reduction in cost. ARENA is particularly well adapted for open-field studies and eliminates many confounding factors associated with traditional procedures, such as handling effects and physical cues left by the subject. The original system was based on wireless modules with a small stimulus-response well. Nosepokes or pecks within the aperture of the well could be detected and recorded by a computer. ARENA 2.0 increases the flexibility of this system by replacing the modules with stimulus presentation through a data projector mounted on the ceiling and response detection and recording through a video camera system. We report the specifics of this system as well as behavioral tests using rats and pigeons. We demonstrated the feasibility of ARENA 2.0 for the acquisition of conditional approach to a visual target, followed by tests showing generalization of performance to novel locations and visual properties of the target. These experiments support the use of this technology for automated tasks traditionally studied through open-field preparations or using touchscreen-equipped operant chambers. The advantages of ARENA 2.0 over the original system are a significant reduction in cost and increased reliability, ease of use, and flexibility in both stimulus configuration and subject response measures.

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Development of an Automated Open Field for Examining Cognitive Processes in Pigeons

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Associative Basis of Landmark Learning and Integration in Vertebrates

Associative Basis of Landmark Learning and Integration in Vertebrates

ARENA 2.0: The next generation automated remote environmental navigation apparatus to facilitate cross-species comparisons in behavior and cognition

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