Parallel perceptual/cognitive functions in humans and rats: Space and time.

Tees, Richard C.; Buhrmann, Kristin

doi:10.1037/h0084213

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“…While our results provided confirmation of latent spatial learning in the Morris Water Maze, the argument that these visually experienced LR animals recognized and used the information about the correct platform location and its relationship to distal cues in the room would have been more persuasive if we were able to demonstrate not only positive transfer, but also negative transfer for animals being tested under Condition B (Incorrect Location) in comparison to animals (Condition C) placed on a platform in an entirely different environment. See Church & Meck (1983) and Tees and Buhrmann (1989) for further discussions. While we did not observe differences between LR and DR rats' behavior (e.g., in rearing) during preexposure, we are currently beginning to do a more sophisticated analysis of the movements of differentially reared and lesioned animals during such preexposure.…”

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The effect of early experience on water maze spatial learning and memory in rats

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Buhrmann

Hanley

1990

Developmental Psychobiology

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In the first of two experiments on spatial competence, groups of light-reared (LR) and dark-reared (DR) rats were compared using a "latent learning" variation of the Morris Water Maze task. On their initial test, the LR rats benefited more than DR rats did from viewing the room/pool from a platform in the correct location. Further, visually experienced rats remember the location of the platform more than DR rats when retested one month later. In a second experiment, in which a proximal cue as well as location was varied from trial to trial. LR rats again proved to be more competent than their DR counterparts. This second task also revealed significant benefits related to stimulation history in the case of a third group of animals raised in enriched or complex environment (CR) conditions. The results are discussed in terms of the nature of the impact of early experience on the ability to acquire and remember spatial concepts.

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The effect of early experience on water maze spatial learning and memory in rats

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Hanley

1990

Developmental Psychobiology

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“…In this literature most of the disruptive influences on later learning result from depriving animals of specific early experiences, not from presenting more early experiences. For example, Tees and Buhrmann (1989) found that visually inexperienced (dark-reared) rats were slower at acquiring a discrimination involving spatial location of visual events under some stimulus-response arrangements when compared to animals raised in the light, one of many important results of this kind produced by Tees and his colleagues (e.g., Tees, 1994). Moreover, there have been few.…”

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