Appetitive and aversive social learning with living and dead conspecifics in crickets.

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 demonstrat

SUBMITTER: Ebina H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7283286 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature