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Effects Of Visual And Geometric Cues In Rat Foraging, Kyle Rubini
Effects Of Visual And Geometric Cues In Rat Foraging, Kyle Rubini
Undergraduate Honours Theses
The purpose of the current study was to investigate cue competition in rat foraging. Rats were placed in a food tower maze comprised of 25 towers arranged in a 5 x 5 matrix. Four towers within the maze were baited and arranged in a diamond spatial pattern. The rat’s objective during each trial was to find each baited tower. The rats in the Visual + Pattern (V+P) condition had an additional, visual cue in the form of striped sleeves placed on all four baited towers. There were 80 trials in total, split into two phases of 40 trials. Rats in …
The Effects Of Visual Cue Facilitation In Spatial Pattern Learning In Rats, Sachia M. Grogan
The Effects Of Visual Cue Facilitation In Spatial Pattern Learning In Rats, Sachia M. Grogan
Undergraduate Honours Theses
Recently published research has shown that a consistent but not coincident visual pattern facilitated the learning of a diamond spatial pattern in humans (Katz, Brown & Sturz, 2014). The purpose of the present experiment was to examine if this could be done in rats, using a square spatial pattern. For each trial, 16 towers were arranged in a 4 X 4 matrix, with one of the nine possible 2 X 2 baiting patterns baited with cheese. The visual pattern group also had four striped towers placed in a 2 X 2 spatial pattern within the larger matrix, while the visual …
Observational Pattern Learning In Rats, Tristan J. Bell Knowlton
Observational Pattern Learning In Rats, Tristan J. Bell Knowlton
Undergraduate Honours Theses
Previous research has shown that rats can profit from watching an expert demonstrator preform a simple foraging task. The purpose of the present experiment was to examine whether observing a skilled rat perform a difficult foraging task could influence performance by the observer. The present research also examined whether familiarity with the demonstrator would have an effect on imitation. In this experiment, the testing arena contained 12 towers arranged in a circle with six of them baited. The cues to finding the bait were three different and distinctive wall posters and the pattern of the baited towers. Twelve rats were …