Manipulations of Start and Food Locations Affect Navigation on a Foraging Task

Autor/inn/en	Martin, Gerard M.; Pirzada, Ashar; Bridger, Alexander; Tomlin, Julian; Thorpe, Christina M.; Skinner, Darlene M.
Titel	Manipulations of Start and Food Locations Affect Navigation on a Foraging Task
Quelle	In: Learning and Motivation, 42 (2011) 4, S.288-299 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0023-9690
DOI	10.1016/j.lmot.2011.08.001
Schlagwörter	Food; Task Analysis; Animals; Performance; Memory; Learning Processes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lebensmittel; Aufgabenanalyse; Animal; Tier; Tiere; Achievement; Leistung; Gedächtnis; Learning process; Lernprozess
Abstract	Rats were able to search multiple food cups in a foraging task and successfully return to a fixed, but not a variable, start location. Reducing the number of food cups to be searched resulted in an improvement in performance in the variable start condition. Performance was better when only one or two food cups had to be visited but was still impaired if the food was not found in the first cup searched. Variable start locations impaired performance when only one food cup had to be searched, if that cup was moved over the table. These findings suggest that there is an interaction between memory processes and the navigational processes that allows an animal to return to its start location after a foraging trip. It appears that a fixed location for the food or the start point of a foraging trip is a necessary precondition for accurate performance. (Contains 3 figures.) (As Provided).
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