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Appetitive and aversive social learning with living and dead conspecifics in crickets
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| Title: | Appetitive and aversive social learning with living and dead conspecifics in crickets |
| Authors: | Ebina, Hiroki Browse this author | | Mizunami, Makoto Browse this author →KAKEN DB |
| Issue Date: | 9-Jun-2020 |
| Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group |
| Journal Title: | Scientific reports |
| Volume: | 10 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page: | 9340 |
| Publisher DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-020-66399-7 |
| Abstract: | Many animals acquire biologically important information from conspecifics. Social learning has been demonstrated in many animals, but there are few experimental paradigms that are suitable for detailed analysis of its associative processes. We established procedures for appetitive and aversive social learning with living and dead conspecifics in well-controlled stimulus arrangements in crickets, Gryllus bimaculatus. A thirsty demonstrator cricket was released in a demonstrator room and allowed to visit two drinking apparatuses that contained water or saltwater and emitted apple or banana odour, and a thirsty learner was allowed to observe the demonstrator room through a net. In the post-training test, the learner preferred the odour of the water-containing apparatus at which the demonstrator stayed. When a dead cricket was placed on one of the two apparatuses, the learner avoided the odour of that apparatus. Further experiments suggested that a living conspecific can be recognized by either visual or olfactory cues for appetitive social learning, whereas olfactory cues are needed to recognize a dead conspecific for aversive social learning, and that different associative processes underlie social learning with living and dead conspecifics. The experimental paradigms described here will pave the way for detailed research on the neural basis of social learning. |
| Rights: | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Type: | article |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2115/79086 |
| Appears in Collections: | 理学院・理学研究院 (Graduate School of Science / Faculty of Science) > 雑誌発表論文等 (Peer-reviewed Journal Articles, etc)
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