The effect of a single light cue on homing behaviour of the golden hamster

Etienne, Ariane S.; Teroni, Evelyne; Hurni, Catherine; Portenier, Véronique

doi:10.1016/s0003-3472(05)80723-7

Cited by 111 publications

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“…This agrees with data from other species of rodents by O' Keefe and Conway (1980), Morris (1981), and Collett, Cartwright, and Smith (1986), for example. Complementarity between environmental and self-generated information corroborates data from Etienne et al (1990), obtained from a different spatial task using hamsters.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 76%

Shortcut ability in hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus): The role of environmental and kinesthetic information

Chapuis

Scardigli

1993

Animal Learning & Behavior

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 76%

Shortcut ability in hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus): The role of environmental and kinesthetic information

Chapuis

Scardigli

1993

Animal Learning & Behavior

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“…In circular test arenas, mice (Alyan and Jander, 1994) and hamsters (Etienne et al, 1990) return to their nest along compromise directions, distal landmarks predominating over the directional component of PI as long as both types of information do not diverge by more than 90°. By contrast, whenever the conflict between the two categories of spatial information is increased, hamsters seem no longer to trust the hitherto stable visual world.…”

Section: Binding Of Landmark Information and Self-motion Cuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Strategies for such masking include testing the animal under infrared (IR) light or surrounding the testing environment with undifferentiated walls, and cleaning the surface of the apparatus so as to render olfactory cues ineffective. The second method is to set external cues and PI in a twofold (Etienne et al, 1986(Etienne et al, , 1988 or threefold (Etienne et al, 1990) conflict with each other. In such conflict situations, if an animal relies on selfmotion cues, it should behave according to these rather than according to references from the proximal and/or distal environment.…”

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confidence: 99%

Path integration in mammals

2004

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ABSTRACT:It is often assumed that navigation implies the use, by animals, of landmarks indicating the location of the goal. However, many animals (including humans) are able to return to the starting point of a journey, or to other goal sites, by relying on self-motion cues only. This process is known as path integration, and it allows an agent to calculate a route without making use of landmarks. We review the current literature on path integration and its interaction with external, location-based cues. Special importance is given to the correlation between observable behavior and the activity pattern of particular neural cell populations that implement the internal representation of space. In mammals, the latter may well be the first high-level cognitive representation to be understood at the neural level.

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“…Very few studies, however, have attempted to analyze the interactions between the different types of sensory information and how they could be used at different stages of learning or according to the specific demands of the task (for exceptions, see Etienne et al 1990;Alyan and Jander 1994).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%