Aprendizaje instrumental en anfibios

In the present paper, amphibian behavioral mechanisms literature is revised. Very little is known about learning processes in amphibians, and even less about brain-learning relations. We recently began a systematic study of instrumental learning in the toad Bufo arenarum within a comparative framewo...

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Publicado: 1999
Materias:
Amphibians
Bufo arenarum
Intrumental conditioning
Learning
Medial pallium
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_01200534_v31_n1_p35_Muzio
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spelling paper:paper_01200534_v31_n1_p35_Muzio2023-06-08T15:10:48Z Aprendizaje instrumental en anfibios Amphibians Bufo arenarum Intrumental conditioning Learning Medial pallium In the present paper, amphibian behavioral mechanisms literature is revised. Very little is known about learning processes in amphibians, and even less about brain-learning relations. We recently began a systematic study of instrumental learning in the toad Bufo arenarum within a comparative framework. Several learning phenomena common to a wide variety of vertebrates were observed, such as acquisition under massed and spaced training conditions, extinction, spontaneous recovery, the reward-following effect, and the magnitude of reinforcement acquisition effect. In addition, we began the analysis of the effects of lesions in the medial pallium (postulated to be the homologous of the mammalian hippocampus) on learning. The lesion of the medial pallium showed no effect neither on acquisition nor in the amount of water uptake during acquisition. Lesions significantly retarded extinction of a water-reinforcement instrumental response in a runway training situation. These data suggest that the medial pallium of toads plays a role in response inhibition. The results of our experiments in the toad Bufo arenarum contribute to the limited information available on learning in amphibians. 1999 https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_01200534_v31_n1_p35_Muzio http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_01200534_v31_n1_p35_Muzio
institution Universidad de Buenos Aires
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collection Biblioteca Digital - Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales (UBA)
topic Amphibians
Bufo arenarum
Intrumental conditioning
Learning
Medial pallium
spellingShingle Amphibians
Bufo arenarum
Intrumental conditioning
Learning
Medial pallium
Aprendizaje instrumental en anfibios
topic_facet Amphibians
Bufo arenarum
Intrumental conditioning
Learning
Medial pallium
description In the present paper, amphibian behavioral mechanisms literature is revised. Very little is known about learning processes in amphibians, and even less about brain-learning relations. We recently began a systematic study of instrumental learning in the toad Bufo arenarum within a comparative framework. Several learning phenomena common to a wide variety of vertebrates were observed, such as acquisition under massed and spaced training conditions, extinction, spontaneous recovery, the reward-following effect, and the magnitude of reinforcement acquisition effect. In addition, we began the analysis of the effects of lesions in the medial pallium (postulated to be the homologous of the mammalian hippocampus) on learning. The lesion of the medial pallium showed no effect neither on acquisition nor in the amount of water uptake during acquisition. Lesions significantly retarded extinction of a water-reinforcement instrumental response in a runway training situation. These data suggest that the medial pallium of toads plays a role in response inhibition. The results of our experiments in the toad Bufo arenarum contribute to the limited information available on learning in amphibians.
title Aprendizaje instrumental en anfibios
title_short Aprendizaje instrumental en anfibios
title_full Aprendizaje instrumental en anfibios
title_fullStr Aprendizaje instrumental en anfibios
title_full_unstemmed Aprendizaje instrumental en anfibios
title_sort aprendizaje instrumental en anfibios
publishDate 1999
url https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_01200534_v31_n1_p35_Muzio
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_01200534_v31_n1_p35_Muzio
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