Imitation in rats (Rattus norvegicus): The role of demonstrator action.

Abstract:

:In a bidirectional control procedure, rats had their first opportunity to push a joystick immediately after observing, from an adjacent compartment, the joystick moving 50 times either to the right or to the left, with each movement signalling the delivery of inaccessible food. Half of these animals observed the joystick moving automatically, and half observed a conspecific demonstrator pushing the joystick. When they were given direct access to the joystick, the observers were rewarded for both left and right pushes. Rats that had observed the joystick moving through the action of a conspecific demonstrator showed a response bias in favour of the observed direction of joystick movement (Experiment 1), while rats that had observed the joystick moving automatically, either in the presence or absence of a passive conspecific, did not show observation-consistent responding (Experiments 1 and 2). These results apparently confirm that rats are capable of imitation or observational learning.

journal_name

Behav Processes

journal_title

Behavioural processes

authors

Heyes CM,Jaldow E,Nokes T,Dawson GR

doi

10.1016/0376-6357(94)90074-4

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1994-08-01 00:00:00

pages

173-82

issue

2

eissn

0376-6357

issn

1872-8308

pii

0376-6357(94)90074-4

journal_volume

32

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