Priming of Darkness-Rewarded Runway Responses in the American Cockroach (<i>Periplaneta Americana</i>)

Eiserer, Leonard A.; Ramsay, Douglas S.

doi:10.1080/00221309.1981.9921038

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“…When-presentations of sunflower seed or nest paper were made intermittently to animals that were living in cages already supplied with seeds and paper, the animals began rearing at the dispenser panel, gnawing and digging around the dispenser panel, as if seeking further material. Eiserer and Ramsay (1981) have noted that such priming effects obtained with ethologically significant stimuli have characteristics similar to those obtained with rewarding EBS. They are strong, easy to obtain, and are related to the magnitude of the priming event.…”

Section: Priming Effects Of Reinforcers Other Than Drugsmentioning

confidence: 82%

“…Using cockroaches trained to cross an illuminated runway to darkness, Eiserer and Ramsay (1981) found that a brief priming presentation of the reinforcer (darkness) enhanced runway performance. The effect decayed rapidly if a delay was introduced between presentation of the priming stimulus and the opportunity to respond.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Reinstatement of Drug-Taking Behavior as a Method of Assessing Incentive Motivational Properties of Drugs

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Wit

1987

Methods of Assessing the Reinforcing Properties of Abused Drugs

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Section: Priming Effects Of Reinforcers Other Than Drugsmentioning

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Section: Priming Effects Of Reinforcers Other Than Drugsmentioning

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Reinstatement of Drug-Taking Behavior as a Method of Assessing Incentive Motivational Properties of Drugs

Stewart

Wit

1987

Methods of Assessing the Reinforcing Properties of Abused Drugs

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“…In some cases, these circadian rhythm effects may extend not only to activity, but also to learning and memory. Eiserer and Ramsay [ 40 ] found improved performance in a light-escape task after prior exposure to a dark period in P. americana . Additionally, in a series of studies, Page et al found that in Rhyparobia maderae acquisition and recall may inhibited during light portions of the circadian rhythm, depending on the specific learning task, and these effects may be regulated by the optic lobe [ 41 , 42 , 43 ].…”

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Habituation of the Light-Startle Response of Orange Head Cockroaches (Eublaberus posticus): Effects of Acclimation, Stimulus Duration, Presence of Food, and Intertrial Interval

Varnon

Adams

2021

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The purpose of this paper is to establish the orange head cockroach (Eublaberus posticus) as a useful insect subject for research in comparative psychology by investigating habituation of the light-startle response (LSR). While one goal of comparative psychology is to compare the behavior of a diversity of species, many taxa, including cockroaches, are grossly underrepresented. Our work serves to improve this deficit by investigating habituation learning in the orange head cockroach in four experiments. In our first experiment, we found that LSR, and habituation of LSR, occurs to both lights being turned on and lights being turned off. In our second experiment, we found that the duration of a light did not affect response, and that spontaneous recovery of LSR occurs after 24 h intervals. In our third experiment, we found that the presence of food inhibited LSR. In our final experiment, we found that the rate of LSR habituation decreased as intertrial interval increased, in a manner predicted by established principles of habituation. Our work lays a strong foundation for future research on the behavior of orange head cockroaches as well as learning in cockroaches in general. We hope that our findings help establish cockroaches as practical insect subjects for research in comparative psychology and related fields such as behavior analysis and behavioral ecology.

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“…A growing body of research demonstrates they have excellent learning abilities. Topics include classical conditioning [31][32][33] operant conditioning [34,35], memory formation [36], spatial learning [37][38][39], learned helplessness [40], the effects of social context on learned behavior [41,42], and individual differences in learning [34]. In addition to behavioral research, there is also substantial work investigating the neurophysiology of cockroaches, with a focus on the mushroom body, a neural structure important to insect learning [43][44][45].…”

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Learning and memory in the orange head cockroach (Eublaberus posticus)

2022

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This paper describes two experiments aimed at establishing the orange head cockroach (Eublaberus posticus) as a model organism for behavioral research. While many invertebrate models are available, cockroaches have several benefits over others that show impressive behavioral abilities. Most notably, cockroaches are long-lived generalists that can be maintained in controlled indoor laboratory conditions. While the most popular cockroaches in behavioral research, Periplaneta americana and Blattella germanica, have the potential to become domestic pests, our E. posticus is extremely unlikely to escape or infest a human environment, making it a very practical species. In our first experiment, we investigated the ability of E. posticus to associate novel odors with appetitive and aversive solutions. They quickly learned to approach odors associated with a dog food sucrose solution and learned to avoid odors associated with salt water. The second experiment repeated the methods of the first experiment, while also testing retained preferences for conditioned odors, from 15 to 1,215 minutes after the conditioning procedure ended. We found that preferences for odors associated with food were strongest 45 minutes after training, then decreased as a function of time. Our work is the first to show associative learning and memory in the orange head cockroach. Findings are discussed in comparison to other invertebrate models as well as to other cockroach research.

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Priming of Darkness-Rewarded Runway Responses in the American Cockroach (Periplaneta Americana)

Cited by 4 publications

References 19 publications

Reinstatement of Drug-Taking Behavior as a Method of Assessing Incentive Motivational Properties of Drugs

Reinstatement of Drug-Taking Behavior as a Method of Assessing Incentive Motivational Properties of Drugs

Habituation of the Light-Startle Response of Orange Head Cockroaches (Eublaberus posticus): Effects of Acclimation, Stimulus Duration, Presence of Food, and Intertrial Interval

Learning and memory in the orange head cockroach (Eublaberus posticus)

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