Invertebrate Strategies in Comparative Learning Studies

Corning, W. C.; Lahue, Robert

doi:10.1093/icb/12.3.455

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“…Since individuals can improve their performance with experience, i.e. better information [Corning & Lahue, 1972;Schneirla, 1943;Thorpe, 1963], it will be interesting to explore the directionality of such correlation in future. That is, are individuals central because they possess knowledge, or they are knowledgeable because they are central in the network, a position which they may have acquired through some other process?…”

Section: Network Statistics Measuring Attributes and Roles Of Individmentioning

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How can social network analysis improve the study of primate behavior?

Sueur

Jacobs

Amblard

et al. 2010

American J Primatol

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When living in a group, individuals have to make trade-offs, and compromise, in order to balance the advantages and disadvantages of group life. Strategies that enable individuals to achieve this typically affect inter-individual interactions resulting in nonrandom associations. Studying the patterns of this assortativity using social network analyses can allow us to explore how individual behavior influences what happens at the group, or population level. Understanding the consequences of these interactions at multiple scales may allow us to better understand the fitness implications for individuals. Social network analyses offer the tools to achieve this. This special issue aims to highlight the benefits of social network analysis for the study of primate behaviour, assessing it's suitability for analyzing individual social characteristics as well as group/population patterns. In this introduction to the special issue, we first introduce social network theory, then demonstrate with examples how social networks can influence individual and collective behaviors, and finally conclude with some outstanding questions for future primatological research.

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Section: Network Statistics Measuring Attributes and Roles Of Individmentioning

confidence: 99%

How can social network analysis improve the study of primate behavior?

Sueur

Jacobs

Amblard

et al. 2010

American J Primatol

202

186

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“…Most of the nine parameters, which are associated with habituation: in higher vertebrates (Thompson and Spencer, 1966), are exhibited by animals in other phyla (Corning and Lahue, 1972;Eisenstein and Peretz, 1973). The question arises as to which parameters are necessary to demonstrate that habituation is being exhibited.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Control of habituation of the withdrawal reflex by the gill ganglion in Aplysia

Peretz

Møller

1974

J. Neurobiol.

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SUMMARYThe regions of the gill neural plexus responsible for habituation of the withdrawal reflex were studied using surgical and electrophysiological techniques. Waterdrops were applied to the gill pinnule, and testing for habituation was carried out in each preparation before and after ganglionectomy of the large ganglion in the gill and pinnule isolation. Three parameters of habituation, response decrement, spontaneous recovery, and dishabituation, were used to evaluate the function of the ganglion and the plexus in the pinnule in habituation of the reflex. Disruption of response decrement, of spontaneous recovery, and of dishabituation were caused by either isolating the stimulated pinnule from the gill ganglion by severing the branchial nerve, or by extirpating the gill ganglion. We conclude that: a) the gill ganglion is necessary for the withdrawal reflex to exhibit the three parameters which characterize hibituation; and b) the plexus in the pinnule mediates the withdrawal reflex. Extracellular recordings from the pinnule showed that sensory adaptation cannot be contributing to habituation of the reflex since the apparent sensory activity evoked by waterdrops in the pinnule was unaltered by repeated stimulation. In gill ganglion neurons, biphasic potentials were evoked by waterdrops and consisted of an initial depolarization followed by a longer lasting hyperpolarization whose duration was increased with repeated stimulation. I n three spontaneously active neurons the rate of activity decreased with repeated stimulation.It is felt that the decreased rate is brought about by potentiation of the hyperpolarization. The rate of spike activity is considered to control the reflex amplitude since the increased rate with intracellular stimulation, in one neuron, resulted in an increased amplitude and since the absence of spontaneous discharge, after ganglionectomy, resulted in a reduced amplitude. A neural network mediating habituation of the withdrawal reflex is proposed.191

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“…The reasons for emphasizing comparative tactics in learning studies have recently been discussed (Corning and Lahue, 1972). Two of these, which were mentioned above, are' particularly important for present considerations.…”

Section: Some Comparative Strategies and Problemsmentioning

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“…Assessments of capacity differences that are related to complexity differences can be carried out through a comparison of simplified and complex versions of the same system (Corning and Lahue, 1972;Lahue and Corning, 1971a,b). Certain invertebrates have proven to be excellent preparations for this sort of comparative strategy, especially many arthropods, because ganglia are readily identifiable and surgical separation of system components is accomplished with relative ease.…”

Section: Some Comparative Strategies and Problemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Stimuli drive a singleevent-generating pacemaker which inhibits a 3 Rushforth, 19654 Rushforth, 19655 Rushforth, 1965 7 Tests failed to demonstrate any generalization; 8B Rushforth et al, 1963application of a different stimulus resulted in a response 1 Clark, 1960a,b;Evans, 19692 Clark, 1960a,b 3 Clark, 1960a4 Clark, 1960a5 Clark, 1960aEvans, 19697 Clark, 1960a; no generalization across modalities 8B Clark, 1960a; lack of cross-modal generalization implies this type of dishabituation 1 Kuenzer, 1958;Gardner, 19682 Kuenzer, 1958Gardner, 19683 Kuenzer, 19585 Kuenzer, 19587 Kuenzer, 1958; spatial generalization but no cross-modal 8 Kuenzer, 1958;lack of cross-modal generalization implies this type of habituation 1 Ratner, 19722 Ratner, 19723 Ratner, 19724 Ratner, 19721 Lahue and Corning, 1971aCorning and Lahue, 19722 Lahue and Corning, 1971aCorning and Lahue, 19723 Lahue and Corning, 1971a73a 6 Lahue and Corning, 1971a Possible mechanisms spontaneously active multiple-event generator; successive stimuli gradually fail to excite the single-event generator.…”

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Invertebrate Strategies in Comparative Learning Studies

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Control of habituation of the withdrawal reflex by the gill ganglion in Aplysia

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