How do global and local geometries shape exploratory behavior in rats?

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 187, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 334-342

  Yaski, Osnat ^a   Eilam, David ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Array; Exploration; Geometric module; Home base; Landmark; Open field; Spatial cognition; Spatial representation

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GEOMETRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; ORIENTATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 38049055713     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2007.09.027     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Avni R., Zadicario E., and Eilam D. Exploration in a dark open field: a shift from directional to positional progression and a proposed model of acquiring spatial information. Behav Brain Res 171 (2006) 313-323
2. Benhamou S., and Poucet B. Landmark use by navigating rats (Rattus norvegicus): contrasting geometric and featural information. J Comp Psychol 112 (1998) 317-322
3. Cheng K. A purely geometric module in the rat's spatial representation. Cognition 23 (1986) 149-178
4. Cheng K. Reflections on geometry and navigation. Connect Sci 17 (2005) 5-21
5. Cheng K., and Gallistel C.R. Shape parameters explain data from spatial transformations: comment on Pearce et al (2004) and Tommasi & Polli (2004). J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process 31 (2005) 254-259
6. Cheng K., and Newcombe N.S. Is there a geometric module for spatial orientation? Squaring theory and evidence. Psychon Bull Rev 12 (2005) 1-23
7. Clark B.J., Hamilton D.A., and Whishaw I.Q. Motor activity (exploration) and formation of home bases in mice (c57bl/6) influenced by visual and tactile cues: modification of movement distribution, distance, location, and speed. Physiol Behav 87 (2006) 805-816
8. Clark B.J., Hines D.J., Hamilton D.A., and Whishaw I.Q. Movements of exploration intact in rats with hippocampal lesions. Behav Brain Res 163 (2005) 91-99
9. Della Chiesa A., Speranza M., Tommasi L., and Vallortigara G. Spatial cognition based on geometry and landmarks in the domestic chick (Gallus gallus). Behav Brain Res 175 (2006) 119-127
10. Drai D., Kafkafi N., Benjamini Y., Elmer G., and Golani I. Rats and mice share common ethologically relevant parameters of exploratory behavior. Behav Brain Res 125 (2001) 133-140
11. Eilam D., Dank M., and Maurer R. Voles scale locomotion to the size of the open-field by adjusting the distance between stops: a possible link to path integration. Behav Brain Res 141 (2003) 73-81
12. Eilam D., and Golani I. Home base behavior of rats (Rattus norvegicus) exploring a novel environment. Behav Brain Res 34 (1989) 199-211
13. Ennaceur A., Michalikova S., and Chazot P.L. Models of anxiety: responses of rats to novelty in an open space and an enclosed space. Behav Brain Res 171 (2006) 26-49
14. Gallistel C.R. The organization of learning (1990), Brad-ford/MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
15. Garrad-Cole F., Lew A.R., Bremner J.G., and Whitaker C.J. Use of cue configuration geometry for spatial orientation in human infants (Homo sapiens). J Comp Psychol 115 (2001) 317-320
16. Gouteux S., and Spelke E.S. Children's use of geometry and landmarks to reorient in an open space. Cognition 81 (2001) 119-148
17. Gouteux S., Thinus-Blanc C., and Vauclair J. Rhesus monkeys use geometric and nongeometric information during a reorientation task. J Exp Psychol Gen 130 (2001) 505-519
18. Graham P., Fauria K., and Collett T.S. The influence of beacon-aiming on the routes of wood ants. J Exp Biol 206 (2003) 535-541
19. Hermer L., and Spelke E. Modularity and development: the case of spatial reorientation. Cognition 61 (1996) 195-232
20. Hermer L., and Spelke E. A geometric process for spatial reorientation in young children. Nature 370 (1994) 57-59
21. Hines D.J., and Whishaw I.Q. Home bases formed to visual cues but not to self-movement (dead reckoning) cues in exploring hippocampectomized rats. Eur J Neurosci 22 (2005) 2363-2375
22. Jacobs L.F., and Schenk F. Unpacking the cognitive map: the parallel map theory of hippocampal function. Psychol Rev 110 (2003) 285-315
23. Kelly D.M., and Spetch M.L. Pigeons encode relative geometry. J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process 27 (2001) 417-422
24. Lever C., Wills T., Cacucci F., Burgess N., and O'Keefe J. Long-term plasticity in hippocampal place-cell representation of environmental geometry. Nature 416 (2002) 90-94
25. McGregor A., Jones P.M., Good M.A., and Pearce J.M. Further evidence that rats rely on local rather than global spatial information to locate a hidden goal: reply to Cheng and Gallistel (2005). J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process 32 (2006) 314-321
26. Paulus M.P., and Geyer M.A. Environment and unconditioned motor behavior: influences of drugs and environmental geometry on behavioral organization in rats. Psychobiology 25 (1997) 327-337
27. Pearce J.M., Good M.A., Jones P.M., and McGregor A. Transfer of spatial behavior between different environments: implications for theories of spatial learning and for the role of the hippocampus in spatial learning. J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process 30 (2004) 135-147
28. Poucet B., Chapuis N., Durup M., and Thinus-Blanc C. A study of exploratory behavior as an index of spatial knowledge in hamsters. Anim Learn Behav 14 (1986) 93-100
29. Skov-Rackette S.I., and Shettleworth S.J. What do rats learn about the geometry of object arrays? Tests with exploratory behavior. J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process 31 (2005) 142-154
30. Sovrano V.A., Bisazza A., and Vallortigara G. Modularity as a fish (Xenotoca eiseni) views it: conjoining geometric and nongeometric information for spatial reorientation. J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process 29 (2003) 199-210
31. Tchernichovski O., Benjamini Y., and Golani I. The dynamics of long-term exploration in the rat - part I. A phase-plane analysis of the relationship between location and velocity. Biol Cybern 78 (1998) 423-432
32. Thinus-Blanc C., Bouzouba L., Chaix K., Chapuis N., Durup M., and Poucet B. A study of spatial parameters encoded during exploration in hamsters. J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process 13 (1987) 418-427
33. Tommasi L., and Thinus-Blanc C. Generalization in place learning and geometry knowledge in rats. Learn Mem 11 (2004) 153-161
34. Tommasi L., Vallortigara G., and Zanforlin M. Young chickens learn to localize the centre of a spatial environment. J Comp Physiol A 180 (1997) 567-572
35. Vallortigara G., Zanforlin M., and Pasti G. Geometric modules in animals spatial representations - a test with chicks (Gallus gallus domesticus). J Comp Psychol 104 (1990) 248-254
36. Whishaw I.Q., Gharbawie O.M., Clark B.J., and Lehmann H. The exploratory behavior of rats in an open environment optimizes security. Behav Brain Res 171 (2006) 230-239
37. Yaski O., and Eilam D. The impact of landmark properties in shaping exploration and navigation. Anim Cogn 10 (2007) 415-428