Interaction between piloting and beacon homing by rats in a swimming pool

Redhead, Edward S., Roberts, Amanda, Good, Mark Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1824-1203 and Pearce, John Martindale ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6121-8650 1997. Interaction between piloting and beacon homing by rats in a swimming pool. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 23 (3) , pp. 340-350. 10.1037/0097-7403.23.3.340

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Abstract

In three experiments, rats in a swimming pool were trained to find a submerged platform with a beacon attached to it. For some rats this beacon unambiguously identified the location of the platform; for others the beacon was made ambiguous by placement of an identical beacon in a different part of the pool. Test trials, in the absence of the platform and the beacons, revealed more persistent searching near the original location of the platform if the beacon attached to the platform had been ambiguous. These results show that learning about the location of the platform, with regard to cues that lie beyond the pool, is influenced by the extent to which an animal can find the platform by relying on other cues. The final experiment shows that this interaction between cues is influenced by an animal's prior experience.

Item Type:	Article
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology
Publisher:	American Psychological Association
ISSN:	0097-7403
Last Modified:	08 Dec 2022 09:57
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/34428

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