Pigeons', Columba livia, use of global and local cues for spatial memory

Spetch, Marcia L.; Edwards, Charles A.

doi:10.1016/s0003-3472(88)80274-4

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“…Solving these tasks required the pigeons to vary their distance (constant-bearing group) or their bearing (constantdistance group) from the landmarks across trials. These findings complement other studies showing that spatial encoding in pigeons is flexible (Keeton, 1974;Kelly, Spetch, & Heth, 1998;Spetch & Edwards, 1988).…”

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Searching by rules: Pigeons' (Columba livia) landmark-based search according to constant bearing or constant distance.

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Rust²,

Kamil³

et al. 2003

Journal of Comparative Psychology

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Pigeons (Columba livia) searched for a goal location defined by a constant relative spatial relationship to 2 landmarks. For one group, landmark-to-goal bearings remained constant while distance varied. For another group, landmark-to-goal distances remained constant while direction varied. Birds were trained with 4 interlandmark distances and then tested with 5 novel interlandmark distances. Overall error magnitude was similar across groups and was larger than previously reported for Clark's nutcrackers (Nucifraga columbiana). During training, error magnitude increased with interlandmark distance for constant-bearing but not constant-distance birds. Both groups searched less accurately along the axis parallel to landmarks than along the perpendicular axis. Error magnitude increased with novel extrapolated interlandmark distances but not with novel interpolated distances. Results suggest modest geometric rule learning by pigeons.

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Searching by rules: Pigeons' (Columba livia) landmark-based search according to constant bearing or constant distance.

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Kamil³

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Journal of Comparative Psychology

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“…surface, this appears to be inconsistent with previous studies where pigeons demonstrated 415 hierarchical strategy use (e.g., Lea et al 2009; Legge et al 2009;Spetch and Edwards 1988). 416…”

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“…adaptive, as using multiple cues for goal localization increases search accuracy (Cartwright and 52 Collett 1983; Kamil and Cheng 2001; ) and allows a goal to be located even if 53 one cue is missing (Spetch and Edwards 1988). 54…”

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Multiple cue use and integration in pigeons (Columba livia)

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“…Thus, the results of the present experiment suggest that reptiles, like mammals and birds, can use both guidance strategies by encoding individual cues in close proximity to the goal as beacons and place or mapping strategies by encoding the spatial relationships between the goal and multiple environmental distallandmarks to locate this goal (Balda, Bunch, Kamil, Sherry, & Tomback, 1987;Brodbeck & Shettleworth, 1995;Cheng, 1986;Cheng & Sherry, 1992;Clayton & Krebs, 1994;Cook & Tauro, 1999;Greene & Cook, 1997;Jacobs et aI., 1998;Kamil & Balda, 1985;Leonard & McNaughton, 1990;Olton & Samuelson, 1976;Roberts & Pearce, 1999;Sherry, 1984;Shettleworth, 1995;Shettleworth & Krebs, 1982;Spetch & Edwards, 1988;Strasser & Bingman, 1996;Suzuki, Augerinos, & Black, 1980).…”

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Place and cue learning in turtles

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Rodrı́guez

Gómez

et al. 2000

Animal Learning & Behavior

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Turtles (Pseudemys scripta) were trained in place, cue, and control arm maze procedures, The turtles learned both tasks with accuracy, Subsequent probe and transfer trials revealed guidance and mapping strategies by the cue and the place groups, respectively. Thus, the turtles in the cue procedure solved their task by directly approaching the single individual intramaze cue associated with the goal, whereas the animals in the place task seemed to be using a maplike representation based on the encoding of simultaneous spatial relationships between the goal and the extramaze visual cues. Furthermore, the turtles in the place task were able to navigate with accuracy to the goal from unfamiliar start places, and their performance was resistant to a partial loss of relevant environmental information. The results reveal for the first time, to our knowledge, spatial learning and memory capabilities in a reptile that closely parallel those described in mammals and birds.

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Pigeons', Columba livia, use of global and local cues for spatial memory

Cited by 71 publications

References 3 publications

Searching by rules: Pigeons' (Columba livia) landmark-based search according to constant bearing or constant distance.

Searching by rules: Pigeons' (Columba livia) landmark-based search according to constant bearing or constant distance.

Multiple cue use and integration in pigeons (Columba livia)

Place and cue learning in turtles

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