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Can rats solve the active place avoidance task without the room-bound cues
I. Fajnerova, J. Kenney, V. Lobellova, S. Okrouhlicova, A. Stuchlik, D. Klement,
Language English Country Netherlands
Document type Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
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NT13386
MZ0
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- MeSH
- Electroshock MeSH
- Task Performance and Analysis MeSH
- Cues * MeSH
- Rats, Long-Evans MeSH
- Spatial Learning * MeSH
- Psychological Tests MeSH
- Darkness MeSH
- Avoidance Learning * MeSH
- Visual Perception MeSH
- Animals MeSH
- Check Tag
- Male MeSH
- Animals MeSH
- Publication type
- Journal Article MeSH
- Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't MeSH
The active place avoidance task is used in the research of spatial cognition. Rats are trained on a rotating arena to avoid an aversive stimulus delivered in a part of the room while being transported toward it by the arena rotation. The task tests the ability of rats to navigate with respect to distal cues in the room and to ignore confusing cues on the arena. The demand for cue segregation makes the task suitable for studying neural mechanisms responsible for cognitive coordination. An incidental observation made in our laboratory implied that overtrained rats may be able to solve the task without the room-bound cues. The aim of this study was to test this observation. The room-bound cues were hidden by switching off the lights. Rats trained only in darkness did not learn the task at all. Rats that were initially pre-trained in light performed considerably better. In a few exceptional dark sessions they even reached the level of performance observed in light. The rats needed the aversive stimuli to keep off the to-be-avoided sector. Without them, they continued their behavior, but with no spatial relationship to the to-be-avoided sector. We conclude that rats are able to solve the place avoidance task without the room-bound cues, but not as efficiently as in their presence.
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