Five on one side: Personal and social information in spatial choice

Brown, Michael F.; Saxon, Marie E.; Bisbing, Teagan A.; Evans, Jessica; Ruff, Jennifer; Stokesbury, Andrew

doi:10.1016/j.beproc.2014.12.012

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“…In agreement with the results of Brown et al (2015), both personal information and social information controlled the side of the arena in which choices were made by subject rats. In alone trials, there was a tendency to choose pits on the baited arena side that increased both over choices within each trial and as a function of experience over trials.…”

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“…However, in contrast to the pattern of results reported by Brown et al (2015), social information provided by the model Fig. 3 Comparison of good versus bad model rats in terms of model rat tendency to choose sucrose pits (top panel), subject rats tendency to choose sucrose pits in alone trials and in together trials with good versus bad model rats (middle panel) and rats' tendency to choose pits that were previously chosen by the other rat (bottom panel).…”

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“…The tendency was enhanced when a model rat was present. Thus, as in the earlier experiment of Brown et al (2015), both personal information and social information controlled the arena side (or general area of the arena) in which subject rats made choices.…”

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confidence: 75%

“…Previous experiments show that social influences between two rats simultaneously searching for food in this task vary in accordance with the degree to which an informed Bmodelr at provides information about the location of the food to a less informed subject rat (Bisbing, Saxon, Sayde, & Brown, 2015). Brown et al (2015) used a procedure in which partial information about the baited locations was available to the subject rats from the outcome of their own choices, but more complete information was available from the choice behavior of model rats that had additional information about the location of the hidden food. This was arranged using sets of five baited locations that were all on one of the two sides of the arena.…”

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“…The first experiment reported below was intended as a replication and extension of the Brown et al (2015) work described above. The extension involves the difference between the information provided by the outcome of rats' own choices and that provided socially.…”

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Specificity and flexibility of social influence on spatial choice

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Rats searched for food in a situation that allowed them to determine which locations contained food after searching a small number of them, but not which of the baited locations contained more-preferred food rather than a less-preferred food. During some experimental trials, the latter information was available from the choices of model rats making choices together with the subject rats, because some of the model rats tended to choose the locations baited with more-preferred food. On the surface, the results suggest that social influence specified the locations of more-preferred food to the subject rats. However, more detailed analysis and data from a second experiment indicate that the social influence can be explained by a general tendency to approach another rat making choices, acquired if rats are exposed to a contingency between social approach and increased foraging success.

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