Cheng Ken, Spetch Marcia L, Kelly Debbie M, Bingman Verner P
Centre for the Integrative Study of Animal Behaviour, Department of Psychology, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia.
Behav Processes. 2006 May 1;72(2):115-27. doi: 10.1016/j.beproc.2005.11.018. Epub 2006 Feb 14.
Roberts and Van Veldhuizen's [Roberts, W.A., Van Veldhuizen, N., 1985. Spatial memory in pigeons on the radial maze. J. Exp. Psychol.: Anim. Behav. Proc. 11, 241-260] study on pigeons in the radial maze sparked research on landmark use by pigeons in lab-based tasks as well as variants of the radial-maze task. Pigeons perform well on open-field versions of the radial maze, with feeders scattered on the laboratory floor. Pigeons can also be trained to search precisely for buried food. The search can be based on multiple landmarks, but is sometimes controlled by just one or two landmarks, with the preferred landmarks varying across individuals. Findings are similar in landmark-based searching on a computer monitor and on a lab floor, despite many differences between the two kinds of tasks. A number of general learning principles are found in landmark-based searching, such as cue competition, generalization and peak shift, and selective attention. Pigeons also learn the geometry of the environment in which they are searching. Neurophysiological studies have implicated the hippocampal formation (HF) in avian spatial cognition, with the right hippocampus hypothesized to play a more important role in the spatial recognition of goal locations. Most recently, single-cell recording from the pigeon's hippocampal formation has revealed cells with different properties from the classic 'place' cells of rats, as well as differences in the two sides of the hippocampus.
罗伯茨和范·韦尔德胡伊曾[罗伯茨，W.A.，范·韦尔德胡伊曾，N.，1985年。鸽子在放射状迷宫中的空间记忆。《实验心理学杂志：动物行为过程》11卷，241 - 260页]关于鸽子在放射状迷宫中的研究引发了对鸽子在基于实验室的任务中使用地标以及放射状迷宫任务变体的研究。在放射状迷宫的开放场地版本中，鸽子表现良好，喂食器分散在实验室地板上。鸽子也可以被训练精确寻找埋藏的食物。搜索可以基于多个地标，但有时仅由一两个地标控制，不同个体偏好的地标有所不同。尽管这两种任务存在许多差异，但在基于地标在电脑显示器上和实验室地板上进行搜索的结果是相似的。在基于地标的搜索中发现了一些一般学习原则，如线索竞争、泛化和峰值转移以及选择性注意。鸽子还能学习它们正在搜索的环境的几何形状。神经生理学研究表明海马结构（HF）在鸟类空间认知中起作用，推测右侧海马在目标位置的空间识别中发挥更重要的作用。最近，对鸽子海马结构的单细胞记录揭示了具有与大鼠经典“位置”细胞不同特性的细胞，以及海马两侧的差异。
