Interaction between auditory and visual learning during filial imprinting

Kampen, Hendrik S. Van; Bolhuis, Johan J.

doi:10.1006/anbe.1993.1074

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“…1981). A recording of a hen's maternal call was played to the chicks when the visual stimulus was switched on (Van Kampen & Bolhuis 1993). As each chick attempted to approach the red box, it caused the running wheel to rotate; revolutions of the running wheel were counted and provided an index of the chick's approach activity.…”

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Expression of the GABA_A receptor γ4‐subunit gene: anatomical distribution of the corresponding mRNA in the domestic chick forebrain and the effect of imprinting training

Harvey

McCabe

Solomonia

et al. 1998

Eur J of Neuroscience

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The learning process of imprinting involves morphological, electrophysiological and biochemical changes in a region of the chick (Gallus gallus domesticus) forebrain known as the intermediate and medial part of the hyperstriatum ventrale (IMHV). The alterations include increases in the mean length of postsynaptic density profiles of axospinous synapses and the number of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor binding sites, and changes in spontaneous and evoked electrical activity. Recent immunocytochemical and behavioural studies have suggested that inhibitory GABAergic neurotransmission plays a role in learning. In this context, it has previously been reported that a novel avian gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) type A (GABA(A)) receptor gene, encoding the gamma4 subunit, is highly expressed in the hyperstriatum ventrale. In this study, we have used in situ hybridization to map, in detail, the expression of the gamma4-subunit gene in the chick brain, and to assess the effect of imprinting training on the level of the corresponding transcript. Our results reveal that the gamma4-subunit mRNA has a restricted distribution, and demonstrate a highly significant, time-dependent effect of training on its steady-state level. At 10 h but not at 5 h after training there is a decrease (25-32%) in the amount of this transcript in parts of the medial hyperstriatum ventrale, including the IMHV. A decrease (28-39%) is also seen in certain visual and auditory pathway areas but no effect was observed in other forebrain regions such as the hyperstriatum intercalatus superior (HIS). These results suggest that imprinting training leads to a time-dependent down-regulation of GABAergic transmission, and raise the possibility that this down-regulation plays a role in learning.

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Expression of the GABA_A receptor γ4‐subunit gene: anatomical distribution of the corresponding mRNA in the domestic chick forebrain and the effect of imprinting training

Harvey

McCabe

Solomonia

et al. 1998

Eur J of Neuroscience

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“…Chicks can be strongly imprinted to a rotating, internally illuminated red box or blue cylinder by exposure to either of these stimuli for 2 h; see Ref for descriptions of the imprinting stimuli. Visual imprinting is particularly powerful if, during training, the visual stimulus is accompanied by a recording of the maternal call of a hen . It can be demonstrated that training has caused the chick to learn about visual features of the stimulus by testing the chick's preference in the absence of the maternal call.…”

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“…Visual imprinting is particularly powerful if, during training, the visual stimulus is accompanied by a recording of the maternal call of a hen. 83 It can be demonstrated that training has caused the chick to learn about visual features of the stimulus by testing the chick's preference in the absence of the maternal call. In untrained chicks, 10-20% of neurons in the IMM were found to show a significant change in firing rate in response to either visual stimulus alone (i.e., with no maternal call).…”

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Imprinting

McCabe

2013

WIRES Cognitive Science

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Imprinting is a type of learning by which an animal restricts its social preferences to an object after exposure to that object. Filial imprinting occurs shortly after birth or hatching and sexual imprinting, around the onset of sexual maturity; both have sensitive periods. This review is concerned mainly with filial imprinting. Filial imprinting in the domestic chick is an effective experimental system for investigating mechanisms underlying learning and memory. Extensive evidence implicates a restricted part of the chick forebrain, the intermediate and medial mesopallium (IMM), as a memory store for visual imprinting. After imprinting to a visual stimulus, neuronal responsiveness in IMM is specifically biased toward the imprinting stimulus. Both this bias and the strength of imprinting measured behaviorally depend on uninterrupted sleep shortly after training. When learning-related changes in IMM are lateralized they occur predominantly or completely on the left side. Ablation experiments indicate that the left IMM is responsible for long-term storage of information about the imprinting stimulus; the right side is also a store but additionally is necessary for extra storage outside IMM, in a region necessary for flexible use of information acquired through imprinting. Auditory imprinting gives rise to biochemical, neuroanatomical, and electrophysiological changes in the medio-rostral nidopallium/mesopallium, anterior to IMM. Auditory imprinting has not been shown to produce learning-related changes in IMM. Imprinting may be facilitated by predispositions. Similar predispositions for faces and biological motion occur in domestic chicks and human infants. WIREs Cogn Sci 2013, 4:375-390. doi: 10.1002/wcs.1231 For further resources related to this article, please visit the WIREs website.

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“…A speaker that was positioned on the ceiling of the cabinet and centred in front of the screen was used to present the maternal call of a hen. The presentation of such a call enhances visual imprinting (Gottlieb, 1971;Van Kampen & Bolhuis, 1993). The training cabinets were maintained at 30°C and were dimly lit by an occluded 25 W houselight that was positioned in a central position on the ceiling next to the back wall of the cabinet.…”

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Perceptual Learning during Filial Imprinting: Evidence from Transfer of Training Studies

Honey

Horn

Bateson

1993

The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B

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Chicks were first imprinted by exposing them to a moving training stimulus, B or C, that was projected onto a screen at one end of an experimental cabinet. Subsequently, subjects selectively approached the stimulus to which they had been exposed. On the following day, the chicks were placed into a chilled experimental cabinet (15°C) and received trials on which two stimuli (A and B) were projected onto screens located at opposite ends of the cabinet. If the subject approached Stimulus A, a stream of warm air was delivered; if it approached B, the trial terminated, and no heat was presented. For subjects that had been imprinted with Stimulus B, those in Group B, Stimulus A was novel, and Stimulus B was familiar. For chicks that had been imprinted with Stimulus C, Group C, both A and B were novel. In two experiments, Group B acquired the discrimination more rapidly than did Group C. This observation, made using a novel training procedure, was taken to support the suggestion that imprinting results in a form of perceptual learning in which the familiar imprinting object has become more discriminable from other novel objects.

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Interaction between auditory and visual learning during filial imprinting

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Expression of the GABA_A receptor γ4‐subunit gene: anatomical distribution of the corresponding mRNA in the domestic chick forebrain and the effect of imprinting training

Expression of the GABA_A receptor γ4‐subunit gene: anatomical distribution of the corresponding mRNA in the domestic chick forebrain and the effect of imprinting training

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Perceptual Learning during Filial Imprinting: Evidence from Transfer of Training Studies

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Expression of the GABA_A receptor γ4‐subunit gene: anatomical distribution of the corresponding mRNA in the domestic chick forebrain and the effect of imprinting training

Expression of the GABA_A receptor γ4‐subunit gene: anatomical distribution of the corresponding mRNA in the domestic chick forebrain and the effect of imprinting training