Observational learning of a shifting goal location in rats: Impact of distance, observed performance, familiarity, and delay

Troha, Ryan; Dong, Danni; Markus, Etan J.

doi:10.1016/j.jneumeth.2020.108617

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“…Animals also have the capacity to learn by observing others; that is, with no need to live the experience, as occurs in asocial learning [ 141 ]. Social learning is more complex than the asocial form, but has been observed in insects [ 142 ], fish [ 143 ], birds [ 144 ], reptiles, amphibians [ 145 ], and mammals [ 146 ].…”

Section: How Learning Influences Animal Welfarementioning

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The Neurobiology of Behavior and Its Applicability for Animal Welfare: A Review

Coria-Ávila

Pfaus

Orihuela

et al. 2022

Animals

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Understanding the foundations of the neurobiology of behavior and well-being can help us better achieve animal welfare. Behavior is the expression of several physiological, endocrine, motor and emotional responses that are coordinated by the central nervous system from the processing of internal and external stimuli. In mammals, seven basic emotional systems have been described that when activated by the right stimuli evoke positive or negative innate responses that evolved to facilitate biological fitness. This review describes the process of how those neurobiological systems can directly influence animal welfare. We also describe examples of the interaction between primary (innate) and secondary (learned) processes that influence behavior.

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Section: How Learning Influences Animal Welfarementioning

confidence: 99%

The Neurobiology of Behavior and Its Applicability for Animal Welfare: A Review

Coria-Ávila

Pfaus

Orihuela

et al. 2022

Animals

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“…The development of rodent models of fear-motivated observational social learning of both operant behaviours [12][13][14] and associative relationships [15][16][17][18] has been largely successful. By contrast, while the development of rodent models of observational forms of rewardmotivated social learning has seen some success in social learning models of operant foraging behaviour [19][20][21], the social transmission of food preference (STFP) paradigm [1,22] remains the best analogue of a reward-based associative model of social learning.…”

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Observing a trained demonstrator influences associative appetitive learning in rats

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The ability to acquire information about the environment through social observation or instruction is an essential form of learning in humans and other animals. Here, we assessed the ability of rats to acquire an association between a light stimulus and the presentation of a reward that is either hidden (sucrose solution) or visible (food pellet) via observation of a trained demonstrator. Subsequent training of observers on the light-reward association indicated that while observation alone was not sufficient for observers to acquire the association, contact with the reward location was higher in observers that were paired with a demonstrator. However, this was only true when the light cue predicted a sucrose reward. Additionally, we found that in the visible reward condition, levels of demonstrator orienting and food cup contact during the observation period tended to be positively correlated with the corresponding behaviour of their observer. This relationship was only seen during later sessions of observer training. Together, these results suggest that while our models were not sufficient to induce associative learning through observation alone, demonstrator behaviour during observation did influence how their paired observer's behavioural response to the cue evolved over the course of direct individual training.

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