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概念学习与三种常见心理物理学范式在射水鱼(Toxotes chatareus)中的应用。

Concept learning and the use of three common psychophysical paradigms in the archerfish (Toxotes chatareus).

机构信息

Laboratory for Visual Neuroethology, School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Queensland Brisbane, QLD, Australia.

Centre for Sensorimotor Neuroscience, School of Human Movement Studies, The University of Queensland Brisbane, QLD, Australia ; Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland Brisbane, QLD, Australia.

出版信息

Front Neural Circuits. 2014 Apr 24;8:39. doi: 10.3389/fncir.2014.00039. eCollection 2014.

Abstract

Archerfish are well known for their specialized hunting technique of spitting water at prey located above the water line. This unique ability has made them a popular focus of study as researchers try to understand the mechanisms involved in targeting and spitting. In more recent years, archerfish have also become an increasingly popular model for studying visual discrimination and learning in general. Until now, only the alternative forced-choice (AFC) task has been used with archerfish, however, they may be capable of learning other classical discrimination tasks. As well as providing alternative, and potentially more efficient, means for testing their visual capabilities, these other tasks may also provide deeper insight into the extent to which an organism with no cortex can grasp the concepts underlying these tasks. In this paper, we consider both the matched-to-sample (MTS) and the odd-one-out (OOO) tasks as they require the subject to learn relatively sophisticated concepts rather than a straight, stimulus-reward relationship, of the kind underlying AFC tasks. A variety of line drawings displayed on a monitor were used as stimuli. We first determined if archerfish could complete the MTS and OOO test and then evaluated their ability to be retrained to new stimuli using a 4-AFC test. We found that archerfish were unable to learn the MTS and had only a limited capacity for learning the OOO task. We conclude that the MTS and OOO are impractical as paradigms for behavioral experiments with archerfish. However, the archerfish could rapidly learn to complete an AFC test and select the conditioned stimulus with a high degree of accuracy when faced with four stimuli, making this a powerful test for behavioral studies testing visual discrimination. In addition, the fish were able to learn the concept of oddity under particular training circumstances. This paper adds to the growing evidence that animals without a cortex are capable of learning some higher order concepts.

摘要

射水鱼以其在水面上方捕食猎物的特殊喷水捕猎技术而闻名。这种独特的能力使它们成为研究的热门对象,研究人员试图了解涉及瞄准和喷水的机制。近年来,射水鱼也成为研究视觉辨别和一般学习的越来越受欢迎的模型。到目前为止,只有替代强制选择(AFC)任务被用于射水鱼,然而,它们可能能够学习其他经典的辨别任务。这些其他任务不仅为测试它们的视觉能力提供了替代且可能更有效的方法,而且还可以更深入地了解没有大脑皮层的生物能够理解这些任务所依据的概念的程度。在本文中,我们考虑了匹配样本(MTS)和异类排除(OOO)任务,因为它们要求受试者学习相对复杂的概念,而不是像 AFC 任务那样基于直接的刺激-奖励关系。我们使用各种在显示器上显示的线条图作为刺激。我们首先确定射水鱼是否能够完成 MTS 和 OOO 测试,然后使用 4-AFC 测试评估它们对新刺激进行再训练的能力。我们发现射水鱼无法学习 MTS,并且仅有限地能够学习 OOO 任务。我们得出结论,MTS 和 OOO 不适合作为行为实验的范式,因为射水鱼无法完成这些任务。然而,射水鱼可以快速学习完成 AFC 测试,并在面对四个刺激时高度准确地选择条件刺激,这使得该测试成为测试视觉辨别能力的行为研究的有力工具。此外,在特定的训练环境下,鱼可以学习到奇数的概念。本文增加了越来越多的证据,证明没有大脑皮层的动物能够学习一些更高阶的概念。

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