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Spatial learning in Japanese eels (Anguilla japonica)

Japanese eels (Anguilla japonica) were trained on a Morris-type spatial learning task. There were four tubes in a pool, but the eels could hide in only one of these. The eels learned the position of the open tube, and maintained their performance when the pool was rotated to remove possible intra-ma...

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Autores principales: Watanabe, Shigeru, Shinozuka, Kazutaka
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6981313/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31650291
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10071-019-01320-y
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description Japanese eels (Anguilla japonica) were trained on a Morris-type spatial learning task. There were four tubes in a pool, but the eels could hide in only one of these. The eels learned the position of the open tube, and maintained their performance when the pool was rotated to remove possible intra-maze cues. The eels could not maintain their performance in a dark room, suggesting that spatial learning involved extra-maze visual cues. When the position of the open tube was randomly changed every day, the performance of the eels in finding the open tube did not improve.
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spelling pubmed-69813132020-02-03 Spatial learning in Japanese eels (Anguilla japonica) Watanabe, Shigeru Shinozuka, Kazutaka Anim Cogn Short Communication Japanese eels (Anguilla japonica) were trained on a Morris-type spatial learning task. There were four tubes in a pool, but the eels could hide in only one of these. The eels learned the position of the open tube, and maintained their performance when the pool was rotated to remove possible intra-maze cues. The eels could not maintain their performance in a dark room, suggesting that spatial learning involved extra-maze visual cues. When the position of the open tube was randomly changed every day, the performance of the eels in finding the open tube did not improve. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2019-10-24 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC6981313/ /pubmed/31650291 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10071-019-01320-y Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6981313/
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