A Comparison of Individual Learning and Social Learning in Zebrafish Through an Ethorobotics Approach.

ABSTRACT: Social learning is ubiquitous across the animal kingdom, where animals learn from group members about predators, foraging strategies, and so on. Despite its prevalence and adaptive benefits, our understanding of social learning is far from complete. Here, we study observational learning in zebrafish, a popular animal model in neuroscience. Toward fine control of experimental variables and high consistency across trials, we developed a novel robotics-based experimental test paradigm, in which a robotic replica demonstrated to live subjects the correct door to join a group of conspecifics. We performed two experimental conditions. In the individual training condition, subjects learned the correct door without the replica. In the social training condition, subjects observed the replica approa

SUBMITTER: Yang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7805697 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature