How well do dingoes, Canis dingo, perform on the detour task?

Smith, Bradley; Litchfield, Carla

doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.04.017

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“…Second, we were interested in directional preference and navigation mode of mice subjected to the detour task. Such experiments were performed previously only on dingoes [1]. Obtained data show that the detour behavior of mice is comparable with the behavior of other previously tested species.…”

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Detour Behavior of Mice Trained with Transparent, Semitransparent and Opaque Barriers

Juszczak

Miller

2016

PLoS ONE

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Detour tasks are commonly used to study problem solving skills and inhibitory control in canids and primates. However, there is no comparable detour test designed for rodents despite its significance for studying the development of executive skills. Furthermore, mice offer research opportunities that are not currently possible to achieve when primates are used. Therefore, the aim of the study was to translate the classic detour task to mice and to compare obtained data with key findings obtained previously in other mammals. The experiment was performed with V-shaped barriers and was based on the water escape paradigm. The study showed that an apparently simple task requiring mice to move around a small barrier constituted in fact a challenge that was strongly affected by the visibility of the target. The most difficult task involved a completely transparent barrier, which forced the mice to resolve a conflict between vision and tactile perception. The performance depended both on the inhibitory skills and on previous experiences. Additionally, all mice displayed a preference for one side of the barrier and most of them relied on the egocentric strategy. Obtained results show for the first time that the behavior of mice subjected to the detour task is comparable to the behavior of other mammals tested previously with free-standing barriers. This detailed characterization of the detour behavior of mice constitutes the first step toward the substitution of rodents for primates in laboratory experiments employing the detour task.

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Detour Behavior of Mice Trained with Transparent, Semitransparent and Opaque Barriers

Juszczak

Miller

2016

PLoS ONE

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“…Miklósi et al ., ), but they are also able to solve challenging problems more quickly (e.g. in a detour task in which they must travel around a V‐shaped fence to get a treat; Smith & Litchfield, ; cf. Pongrácz, Miklósi, Vida & Csányi, ).…”

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Exploring the evolutionary origins of overimitation: a comparison across domesticated and non‐domesticated canids

Johnston

Holden

Santos

2016

Developmental Science

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When learning from others, human children tend to faithfully copy - or 'overimitate' - the actions of a demonstrator, even when these actions are irrelevant for solving the task at hand. We investigate whether domesticated dogs (Canis familiaris) and dingoes (Canis dingo) share this tendency to overimitate in three experiments. In Experiment 1, dogs and dingoes had the opportunity to solve a puzzle after watching an ostensive demonstrator who used both a relevant action and an irrelevant action. We find clear evidence against overimitation in both species. In contrast to human children (Horner & Whiten, 2005), dogs and dingoes used the irrelevant action less often across trials, suggesting that both species were filtering out the irrelevant action as they gained experience with the puzzle (like chimpanzees; Horner & Whiten, 2005). Experiments 2 and 3 provide further evidence against overimitation, demonstrating that both species' behavior is better characterized by individual exploration than overimitation. Given that both species, particularly dogs, show human-like social learning in other contexts, these findings provide additional evidence that overimitation may be a unique aspect of human social learning. A video abstract of this article can be viewed at: https://youtu.be/g2mRniJZ7aU.

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“…Second, subjects were required to walk, rather than to reach, around a barrier. Similar tasks involving locomotive detours around transparent barriers have seen widespread use in non-primates [70], and have been used in human infants [71]. In our locomotive detour task, mink chose between three corridors within an apparatus (Fig.…”

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Recurrent perseveration correlates with abnormal repetitive locomotion in adult mink but is not reduced by environmental enrichment

Ahloy‐Dallaire

Meagher

Díez-León

et al. 2011

Behavioural Brain Research

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a b s t r a c tWe analysed the relationship between abnormal repetitive behaviour (ARB), the presence/absence of environmental enrichment, and two types of behavioural disinhibition in farmed American mink, Neovison vison. The first type, recurrent perseveration, the inappropriate repetition of already completed responses, was assessed using three indices of excessive response repetition and patterning in a biascorrected serial two-choice guessing task. The second type, disinhibition of prepotent responses to reward cues, a form of impulsivity, was tested in a locomotive detour task adapted from primate reaching tasks: subjects were required to walk around, rather than directly into, a transparent barrier behind which food was visible. In older adult females, recurrent perseveration positively predicted pre-feeding abnormal repetitive locomotion (ARL) in Non-enriched housing. High-ARL subjects also performed repeated (same-choice) responses more rapidly than low-ARL animals, even when statistically controlling for alternated (different-choice) response latency. Mink performed much less ARL following transfer to Enriched housing, but there was no corresponding change in recurrent perseveration. Thus, elevated recurrent perseveration is not sufficient for frequent ARL; and while captive environments do determine ARL frequency, in mink, they do not necessarily do so by modifying levels of perseveration. Disinhibition of prepotent responses to reward cues, meanwhile, did not predict ARL. In a separate sample of differentially housed young adults, neither type of behavioural disinhibition predicted ARL, and again, whether or not housing was enriched did not affect behavioural disinhibition despite affecting ARL. Thus, the relationship between recurrent perseveration and ARB may only develop with age; longitudinal studies are now required for confirmation.

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How well do dingoes, Canis dingo, perform on the detour task?

Cited by 59 publications

References 19 publications

Detour Behavior of Mice Trained with Transparent, Semitransparent and Opaque Barriers

Detour Behavior of Mice Trained with Transparent, Semitransparent and Opaque Barriers

Exploring the evolutionary origins of overimitation: a comparison across domesticated and non‐domesticated canids

Recurrent perseveration correlates with abnormal repetitive locomotion in adult mink but is not reduced by environmental enrichment

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