Effects of set size on identity and oddity abstract-concept learning in rats

Lazarowski, Lucia; Goodman, Adam M.; Galizio, Mark; Bruce, Katherine

doi:10.1007/s10071-019-01270-5

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“…Past oddity studies (e.g., Koronakos and Arnold 1957;Thomas and Noble 1988;Wodinsky and Bitterman 1953) could not show evidence of oddity learning in rats due to the use of one-odd tasks or two-odd tasks or serial presentation of multiple oddity tasks. Conversely, recent oddity studies (e.g., April et al 2011;Lazarowski et al 2019;Taniuchi et al 2017) were able to show evidence of oddity concept learning in rats by employing multiple concurrent oddity tasks. In this entry, the focus is on the improvement in rats' oddity performances from the original oddity studies (e.g., Koronakos and Arnold 1957;Thomas and Noble 1988;Wodinsky and Bitterman 1953) until today, and some critical parameters (e.g., concurrent presentation, the use of a large number of stimuli) that enabled various species (e.g., rats, monkeys, and pigeons) to demonstrate oddity concept learning.…”

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“…However, serial presentation of multiple oddity problems resulted in configural learning. Recently, several oddity studies with rats (e.g., Lazarowski et al 2019;Taniuchi et al 2017) concurrently presented multiple oddity tasks, demonstrating evidence of oddity concept learning in rats. Taniuchi et al (2017) trained rats to discriminate an odd object (B) from five identical objects (e.g., AAAAAB) in a row.…”

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“…Compared to monkeys and pigeons, the path of the attainment of oddity concept learning in rats was not so smooth. However, with the continuous efforts of researchers, robust evidence of an oddity concept has been found in rats (e.g., Lazarowski et al 2019;Taniuchi et al 2017). Hence, a question arises as to how rats acquired the oddity concept.…”

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“…Or a sample stimulus (red) is, at first, presented but disappears after some delay and then two comparison stimuli (red and green) are simultaneously presented. Lazarowski et al (2019) examined identity and oddity learning in rats following the simultaneous MTS and NMTS procedures. In their studies, discrimination training began by inserting the sample tray into the chamber.…”

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Oddity Learning in the Rat

Siddik¹

2020

Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior

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Difference; Relational understanding Definition Oddity concept learning is an ability to identify an odd stimulus from two or more identical stimuli. If the subject can consistently pick the odd stimuli from the identical stimuli across different oddity training tasks and can apply this experience to the novel set of stimuli, it is considered that the subject has acquired oddity concept learning. For example, a stimuli set involves an odd stimulus "Blue circle" and two identical stimuli "Red squares." Animals are required to discriminate an odd stimulus (blue circle) from the stimuli set (one blue circle and two red squares). Transfer of the oddity discrimination to a novel oddity stimuli set (e.g., a purple star and two triangles) in the first trial of a transfer test can be interpreted as evidence of abstract oddity concept learning (Wright 1991).

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Oddity Learning in the Rat

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2020

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“…In contrast, early MTS studies using visual stimuli with rats found very slow acquisition and no evidence of control by the identity relation (Iversen, 1997). However, choice of stimulus modality is important with rats and more recent studies have demonstrated rapid acquisition and generalization of both MTS and NMTS with olfactory stimuli (April et al, 2011; Lazarowski, et al, 2019; Pena et al, 2006).…”

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Successive incrementing non‐matching‐to‐samples in rats: An automated version of the odor span task

Galizio

Mason

Bruce

2020

J Exper Analysis Behavior

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The odor span task is a procedure frequently used to study remembering of multiple stimuli in rodents. A large arena is used and odor stimuli are presented using scented cups. Selection of each odor is reinforced when first presented, but not on subsequent presentations; correct selections depend on remembering which stimuli were previously presented. The use of an arena setting with manual stimulus presentation makes the odor span task labor‐intensive and limits experimental control; thus, an automated version of the task would be of value. The present study used an operant chamber equipped with an olfactometer and trained rats using successive conditional discrimination procedures under an incrementing non‐matching‐to‐samples contingency. High rates of responding developed to odor stimuli when they were session‐novel with low rates of responding to subsequent presentations of that odor. Additional experiments assessed variations of the procedure to determine the role of the frequency of odor presentation and the retention interval separating sample and comparison. Discrimination was impaired with long retention intervals suggesting the importance of this variable. These findings confirmed that rats differentiate between stimuli that are session‐novel and those previously encountered and support the use of an automated procedure as an alternative to the odor span task.

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Same/Different Concept: An Embodied Spiking Neural Model in a Learning Context

Cyr

Thériault

2022

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Effects of set size on identity and oddity abstract-concept learning in rats

Cited by 14 publications

References 39 publications

Oddity Learning in the Rat

Oddity Learning in the Rat

Successive incrementing non‐matching‐to‐samples in rats: An automated version of the odor span task

Same/Different Concept: An Embodied Spiking Neural Model in a Learning Context

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