Trigeminal nerve and eatng in the pigeon (Columba livia): Neurosensory control of the consummatory responses.

Hp, Zeigler; Miller, Maria

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“…Normative data for the White Carneaux pigeon using another grain mixture supports this estimate (Zeigler, Miller, & Levine, 1975).…”

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Some effects of reinforcer availability on the pigeon’s responding in 24-hour sessions

Lucas

1981

Animal Learning & Behavior

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Restrictions on food availability produced by schedules of reinforcement were examined in three homing pigeons continuously housed in operant chambers. Total daily access to food was free to vary and depended on the subject's contact with the schedule in effect. Experiment 1 varied reinforcer duration within a continuous reinforcement schedule in order to provide a description of the pigeon's feeding pattern under minimal constraints. In Experiments 2 and 3, access to food was contingent on responding in fixed-interval schedules, and limits on availability of food were varied by changing the duration of reinforcement (Experiment 2) or the frequency of reinforcement (Experiment 3l. In all three experiments, a decline in the scheduled availability of food produced an increase in both the overall response rate and the local response rate. In addition, the distribution of responding across the day followed a diurnal rhythm typical of the pigeon's unconstrained pattern of food intake. These effects are consistent with previous studies showing an inverse relationship between instrumental response rate and reinforcer availability in the absence of fixed deprivation, and support the interpretation that this inverse relationship results from constraints imposed on preferred patterns of intake. The data on the localdistribution of responses were consistent with an extension of the response-deprivation hypothesis to localresponse patterning.411

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“…Normative data for the White Carneaux pigeon using another grain mixture supports this estimate (Zeigler, Miller, & Levine, 1975).…”

Section: Local Patterns Of Respondingmentioning

confidence: 59%

Some effects of reinforcer availability on the pigeon’s responding in 24-hour sessions

Lucas

1981

Animal Learning & Behavior

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“…This area of the telencephalon is also the origin of a descending pathway which has been homologized with the mammalian pyramidal tract and which terminates upon premotor neurons controlling beak movements (Berkhoudt, Klein, & Zeigler, 1982;Wild & Zeigler, 1980. Denervation and lesion experiments involving disruption of the afferent, efferent, or central components of this pathway have revealed a variety of pecking and grasping deficits related to the disruption of visual, somatosensory, and motor mechanisms (Levine & Zeigler, 1981;Zeigler & Karten, 1973;Zeigler, Miller, & Levine, 1975). …”

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Grasping in the pigeon (Columba livid): Stimulus control during conditioned and consummatory responses

LaMon

Zeigler

1984

Animal Learning & Behavior

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Control of beak opening (gape) and peck location was examined in pigeons. Feeding pecks showed accurate guidance that positioned the seed between the beaks. At the moment of contact with the seed, gape was proportional to seed diameter, although pecks with gape less than seed diameter were more frequent following an increase in seed size during a meal. There were no substantial differences between pigeons trained to keypeck with autoshaping and those trained with operant conditioning procedures. With either procedure, water reinforcement produced keypecks with the beak closed; seed reinforcers of different sizes produced means for gape proportional to the seed diameters. Black or white circular stimuli of different sizes projected as conditioning signals had little influence upon gape, but a greater percentage of responses was directed to white stimuli. These results indicate that visual stimuli elicit and orient the peck, whereas the adjustment of gape also involves the somatosensory stimuli provided during previous experience with a particular reinforcer or food type. 223The beak of a bird is involved in a variety of behaviors, including eating and drinking, manipulation of nonfood objects (e.g., nest materials), care of the body surface (preening), and agonistic behavior. Considered as an effector organ, the avian beak has functions analogous to those of the hand. Indeed, during grasping the upper and lower beaks operate like the primate thumb and forefinger (Beecher, 1951). The complexity of such behaviors requires a system capable of precise motor organization. Moreover, as a component of both conditioned keypecks and consummatory responses, beak movements provide an important behavioral parameter for comparisons of conditioned and consummatory response forms. We have therefore begun to investigate the sensorimotor control of beak movements by examining the grasping behavior of the pigeon.Grasping is one of four components of the pigeon's feeding behavior sequence: pecking, grasping, mandibulation, and swallowing (Zeigler, 1976;Zweers, 1982b). High-speed cinematographic analyses indicate that grasping is integrated into the pecking response and may be divided into two distinct phases: beak opening and

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“…In ten of these cases, the injections were unilateral (two maxillary, five mandibular, two ophthalmic, and one mandibular plus ophthalmic); in three cases, they were bilateral, with a different nerve or combination of nerves injected on either side of the head (two right ophthalmic, left mandibular; one right maxillary, left ophthalmic plus mandibular). The sensory branch of the mandibular nerve was exposed in the posterior part of the lower beak, the ophthalmic branch was exposed within the orbit following gentle lateral retraction of the eyeball, and two maxillary branches were exposed within the orbit followingenucleation (Zeigler et al, 1975). In two cases, the trigeminal ganglion was exposed by removing the bone behind the orbit and retracting the anterior tectum, and multiple injections of CTB-HRP were made into the ganglion using a picospritzer.…”

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Central projections and somatotopic organisation of trigeminal primary afferents in pigeon (Columba livia)

Wild

Zeigler

1996

J. Comp. Neurol.

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Injections of cholera toxin B-chain conjugated to horseradish peroxidase into individual peripheral branches of the trigeminal nerve or into the trigeminal ganglion showed that an ascending trigeminal tract (TTA) terminated in distinct ventral and dorsal divisions of the principal sensory nucleus (PrVv and PrVd, respectively), and a descending tract (TTD) terminated within pars oralis, pars interpolaris, and pars caudalis divisions of the nucleus of TTD (nTTD) and within the dorsal horn of the first six cervical spinal segments. In PrVd, mandibular, ophthalmic, and maxillary projections were predominantly located dorsally, ventrally, and medially, respectively. In nTTD, mandibular projections lay dorsomedially, ophthalmic projections lay ventrolaterally, and maxillary projections lay in between. At caudal medullary and spinal levels, mandibular projections were situated medially, ophthalmic projections were situated laterally, and maxillary projections were situated centrally. The terminations within the dorsal horn were most dense in laminae III and IV and were least dense in lamina II, with laminae III-IV also receiving topographically organised contralateral projections. Extratrigeminal projections were mainly to the external cuneate nucleus by way of a lateral descending trigeminal tract (lTTD; Dubbeldam and Karten [1978] J. Comp. Neurol. 180:661-678) and to the region of the tract of Lissauer and lamina I of the dorsal horn. Other projections were to a region medial to the apex of pars interpolaris, to the nuclei ventrolateralis anterior (Vla) and presulcalis anterior (Pas) of the solitary complex, and sparsely to the lateral reticular formation (plexus of Horsley) ventral to TTD. No projections were seen to the trigeminal motor nuclei or to the cerebellum.

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Trigeminal nerve and eatng in the pigeon (Columba livia): Neurosensory control of the consummatory responses.

Cited by 53 publications

References 20 publications

Some effects of reinforcer availability on the pigeon’s responding in 24-hour sessions

Some effects of reinforcer availability on the pigeon’s responding in 24-hour sessions

Grasping in the pigeon (Columba livid): Stimulus control during conditioned and consummatory responses

Central projections and somatotopic organisation of trigeminal primary afferents in pigeon (Columba livia)

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