Discrimination with Light Stimuli and a Lever-Pressing Response in<i>Melipona Rufiventris</i>

Pessotti, Isaias

doi:10.1080/00218839.1972.11099704

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“…Meloipona anthidiodes in which the lever-pressing by front leg movement was targeted as the operant behavior [12,15]. In this study, we newly developed an operant chamber -27-system to make lobsters perform a discrimination task under the body-fixed condition illustrated in Fig.…”

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Discrimination learning with light stimuli in restrained American lobster

Tomina

Takahata

2012

Behavioural Brain Research

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Operant discrimination learning has been extensively utilized in the study on the perceptual ability of animals and their higher-order brain functions. We tested in this study whether American lobster Homarus americanus, which was previously found to possess ability of operant learning with claw gripping, could be trained to discriminate light stimuli of different intensities. For the current purpose, we newly developed a PC-controlled operant chamber that allowed the animal under a body-fixed condition to perform operant reward learning with claw gripping. Lobsters were first reinforced when they gripped the sensor bar upon presentation of a light cue. Then they were trained to grip the bar only when the light stimulus of a specific intensity was presented to obtain food reward while the stimuli of three different intensities including the reinforced one were presented in a random order. Finally, they were re-trained to grip the bar only when the light stimulus of another intensity that was not rewarded in the preceding training to obtain food while other intensities including the one that was rewarded previously were not rewarded any more. In these training procedures, the operant behavior occurred more frequently in response to the rewarded cue than to the non-rewarded one. The action latency for the reinforced stimuli showed a significant decrease in the course of training.These data demonstrate that lobsters can be trained with the light cues of different intensity as discriminative stimuli under a restrained condition that would allow application of electrophysiological techniques to the behaving subjects.-3-

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Discrimination learning with light stimuli in restrained American lobster

Tomina

Takahata

2012

Behavioural Brain Research

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“…A number of studies have been successful in implementing operant paradigms for invertebrate species (Abramson & Feinman, 1990;Makous, 1969;Tomina & Takahata, 2010). Reward learning was demonstrated in honey bees (Núñez, 1970;Pessotti, 1972), Aplysia (Brembs et al, 2002;Carew & Sahlely, 1986), and lobsters (Tomina & Takahata, 2010), while punishment has been shown to shape behavior in cockroaches (Horridge, 1962), locusts (Hoyle, 1982), Aplysia (Cook and Carew, 1986), and pond snails (Lukowiak et al, 1996). By adding components of instrumental learning to CPP paradigms, such as walking into a specific part of the arena, operant place-conditioning (OPC) provides real time measures of learning through changes in acquired place preference (Crowder & Hutto, 1992).…”

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Operant avoidance learning in crayfish, Orconectes rusticus: Computational ethology and the development of an automated learning paradigm

Bhimani

Huber

2015

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Research in crustaceans offers a valuable perspective for studying the neural implementation of conserved behavioral phenomena, including motivation, escape, aggression, and drug-sensitive reward. The present work adds to this literature by demonstrating that crayfish successfully learn to respond to spatially contingent cues. An integrated video-tracking system automatically delivered a mild electric shock when a test animal entered or remained on a substrate paired with punishment. Following a few instances of shock delivery, crayfish quickly learned to avoid these areas. Comparable changes in substrate preference were not exhibited by yoked controls, but locomotion differed significantly from both pre-conditioning levels and from those of their masters receiving shock in a contingent fashion. The results of this work provide valuable insights into the principles governing avoidance learning in an invertebrate system and provide a behavioral template for exploring the neural changes during associative learning. Serving as a case study, this project introduces a new computer framework for the automated control of learning paradigms. Based on routines contained within the JavaGrinders library (free download at iEthology.com), it integrates real-time video tracking with robotic interfaces, and provi des a suitable fr amewor k f or implementing automated learning paradigms.

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“…In fact, the results for baseline acquisition were somewhat unexpected for this experiment. Prior studies of visual discriminative learning in bees indicated that less than 100 training trials were required to establish a robust discriminative baseline (Giurfa et al, 2001;Moreno et al, 2012;Pessotti, 1972). For example, in the study by Moreno et al,16 bees received simple discrimination training with horizontal vs. vertical patterns and blue vs. yellow colors.…”

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“…Such discriminative ability extends to the genus Melipona (Menzel, Ventura, Werner, Joaquim, & Backhaus, 1989; Moreno, de Souza, & Reinhard, 2012;Pessotti, 1972), which was used in the present study. Bees can also master discriminative tasks that involve stimuli of different sensory modalities such as colors and odors (Giurfa et al, 2001;Reinhard, Srinivasan, Guez, & Zhang, 2004;Srinivasan, Zhang, & Zhu, 1998), and tasks that involve arbitrary relations between colors and temperatures (Dyer, Whitney, Arnold, Glover, & Chittka, 2006).…”

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Assessing restricted stimulus control in typically developing preschool children and bees (Melipona quadrifasciata).

Moreno¹,

Varella²,

Canovas³

et al. 2014

Psychology & Neuroscience

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This study established a simple simultaneous discrimination between a pair of two-element compound visual stimuli in children (Experiment 1) and bees (Melipona quadrifasciata, Experiment 2). The contingencies required discriminative control by the compound and the question was whether the accurate stimulus control reached at this level would hold for each individual element of the compound. After baseline reached stability, probe trials assessed stimulus control by each single element of both S+ and S-. Average data showed that children (Exp. 1) tended to show stimulus control by a single element of the S+ compound. In Experiment 2 three of four bees showed stimulus control by both elements of S+ and did not respond or responded only infrequently to the elements of the S-. The children's decline in discrimination accuracy in probe trials, along with its maintenance during the baseline, replicated previous findings showing the development of restricted stimulus control (RSC). The precise stimulus control shown by the bees indicated that all elements correlated with reinforcement acquired stimulus control over their behavior; this confirms the extensive literature on visual discriminative learning in bees, but due to the small number of subjects it is premature to say that bees do not develop RSC.

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Discrimination with Light Stimuli and a Lever-Pressing Response inMelipona Rufiventris

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Discrimination learning with light stimuli in restrained American lobster

Discrimination learning with light stimuli in restrained American lobster

Operant avoidance learning in crayfish, Orconectes rusticus: Computational ethology and the development of an automated learning paradigm

Assessing restricted stimulus control in typically developing preschool children and bees (Melipona quadrifasciata).

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