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Latent spatial learning in an environment with a distinctive shape

Horne, Murray R., Gilroy, Kerry E., Cuell, Steven F. and Pearce, John Martindale ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6121-8650 2012. Latent spatial learning in an environment with a distinctive shape. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 38 (2) , pp. 139-147. 10.1037/a0027288

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Abstract

Four experiments were conducted with rats in order to determine whether being placed on a platform in one corner of a rectangular swimming pool results in latent spatial learning. Rats in Experiments 1–3 received four trials a day of being placed on the platform. During a subsequent test trial, in which they were released into the pool without the platform, the rats exhibited a preference for swimming in the correct corners of the pool (those with the same geometric properties as the corner containing the platform during training), than the two remaining, incorrect corners. This effect was seen when the interval between the final placement trial and the test trial was as much as 24 hr (Experiment 2) and after varying numbers of sessions of placement training (Experiment 3). Experiment 4 revealed that when the test took place in a kite-shaped arena, after placement training in a rectangle, a stronger preference was shown for the corner that was geometrically equivalent to the correct rather than the incorrect corners in the rectangle. The placement treatment is said to result in latent spatial learning based on the development of S-S associations.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Psychology
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Publisher: American Psychological Association
ISSN: 1939-2184
Funders: BBSRC
Last Modified: 06 Nov 2022 14:05
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/28614

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