Hierarchical use of cues in the missing object recognition task by rats (Rattus norvegicus).

Abstract:

:This study investigated rats' preferences for using non-spatial and spatial cues in a missing-object recognition task. Rats were trained to find a sunflower seed under any one of four previously missing adjacent objects, the test array of a trial, after having found seeds under three of them in the 'study' array of that trial. On some trials the study and test arrays consisted of a different object at each baited food site and on other trials, of identical objects. A previously missing object's position and orientation within its array and its global position within the large foraging chamber varied over trials but not within trials. Following training, rats received interspersed non- or partially rewarded probe trials with transformed test arrays of dissociated non-spatial (object-specific) and spatial cues on test array feeders. Results from these probe trials revealed that rats preferred to search for a missing object based first on its specific non-spatial features before searching for it based on its local spatial features; that is, its local position followed by its orientation, and finally based on its global position. This hierarchical sequence for using spatial cues was preserved under the identical-objects cueing condition. Rats reversed their preferences between object-specific and local position cues, however, when novel objects replaced the same four different objects in a supplementary experiment. We discussed the implications of these findings in terms of the influence of ecological- and context-dependent factors on information use or retrieval from animals' visuo-spatial working memory.

journal_name

Behav Processes

journal_title

Behavioural processes

authors

Arain M,Cohen J

doi

10.1016/j.beproc.2013.04.007

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2013-07-01 00:00:00

pages

41-52

eissn

0376-6357

issn

1872-8308

pii

S0376-6357(13)00080-6

journal_volume

97

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