scholarly journals The role of olfactory cues in position learning in the gerbil

1976 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 315-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard Brosgole
Keyword(s):  
Olfactory Cues ◽  
Position Learning

scholarly journals The Role of Gender and Familiarity in a Modified Version of the Almeria Boxes Room Spatial Task

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 681
Author(s):  
Alessia Bocchi ◽  
Massimiliano Palmiero ◽  
Jose Manuel Cimadevilla Redondo ◽  
Laura Tascón ◽  
Raffaella Nori ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Initial Phase ◽  
Spatial Navigation ◽  
Spatial Task ◽  
Individual Factors ◽  
Learning Tasks ◽  
Position Learning ◽  
Spatial Tasks ◽  
Environmental Representation

Individual factors like gender and familiarity can affect the kind of environmental representation that a person acquires during spatial navigation. Men seem to prefer relying on map-like survey representations, while women prefer using sequential route representations. Moreover, a good familiarity with the environment allows more complete environmental representations. This study was aimed at investigating gender differences in two different object-position learning tasks (i.e., Almeria Boxes Tasks) assuming a route or a survey perspective also considering the role of environmental familiarity. Two groups of participants had to learn the position of boxes placed in a virtual room. Participants had several trials, so that familiarity with the environment could increase. In both tasks, the effects of gender and familiarity were found, and only in the route perspective did an interaction effect emerge. This suggests that gender differences can be found regardless of the perspective taken, with men outperforming women in navigational tasks. However, in the route task, gender differences appeared only at the initial phase of learning, when the environment was unexplored, and disappeared when familiarity with the environment increased. This is consistent with studies showing that familiarity can mitigate gender differences in spatial tasks, especially in more complex ones.

Role of olfactory cues in acquisition and extinction of avoidance.

1974 ◽  
Vol 103 (3) ◽  
pp. 461-465 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. K. Dua ◽  
M. J. Dobson
Keyword(s):  
Olfactory Cues

scholarly journals The role of visual and olfactory cues in social decisions of guppies and zebrafish

2021 ◽  
Vol 180 ◽  
pp. 209-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Santacà ◽  
Marco Dadda ◽  
Angelo Bisazza
Keyword(s):  
Olfactory Cues ◽  
Social Decisions

Role of olfactory cues in the radial maze performance of rats

1981 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 405-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Bures̆ová ◽  
J. Bures̆
Keyword(s):  
Radial Maze ◽  
Olfactory Cues ◽  
Maze Performance ◽  
Radial Maze Performance

scholarly journals Managing Invasive Nutria: The Role of Olfactory Cues

2006 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan , M. Jojola ◽  
Gary, W. Witmer ◽  
Dale, L. Nolte
Keyword(s):  
Olfactory Cues

Long-Delay and Selective Association in Food Aversion Learning: The Role of Cue Location

1984 ◽  
Vol 36 (1b) ◽  
pp. 65-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. G. Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Animal Species ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Olfactory Cues ◽  
Conditioning Chamber ◽  
Food Aversion ◽  
Present Evidence ◽  
Food Container ◽  
Sense Modality ◽  
Conditioned Behaviour

Cue location has been an uncontrolled variable in food-aversion studies. While tastes are always attributes of the ingested object, visual, auditory and olfactory cues are often attributes of the food container or are located elsewhere in the conditioning chamber. A review of experimental studies indicates that cues which are attributes of the ingested object are almost invariably associated with both immediate and delayed illness, regardless of the sense modality of the cue and of the animal species involved. Cues which are attributes of the food container or conditioning chamber are associated with immediate but not delayed illness, again regardless of the sense modality and animal subject. Within the limits of present evidence, the same effects of cue location appear to occur when shock is the reinforcer. It is suggested that the association of attribute cues across delays is mediated by the conditioned behaviour, which is directed at the object of which they are attributes and which is biologically related to the subsequent reinforcement.

The Role of Olfactory Cues for the Search Behavior of a Specialist and Generalist Butterfly

2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Schäpers ◽  
Mikael A. Carlsson ◽  
Gabriella Gamberale-Stille ◽  
Niklas Janz
Keyword(s):  
Search Behavior ◽  
Olfactory Cues

EFFECT OF COMPOSITION OF OLFACTORY CUES ON IMPRESSIONS OF PERSONALITY

1992 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 149-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Marie Fiore
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Analysis Of Covariance ◽  
Olfactory Cues ◽  
Single Item ◽  
Floral Fragrance ◽  
Professional Interactions

Ninety female undergraduates participated in an experiment investigating whether composition of three fragrances (perfumes) influenced impressions of personality traits of people who would wear each fragrance. Analysis of covariance with the variance due to liking of the fragrance (a covariate) removed, revealed that fragrance composition influenced impressions of personality. Impressions made of affiliated fragrances (oriental and chypre) were more closely aligned than impression of the dissimilar (floral) fragrance for the multi-item Uninhibited and Traditional Male factors and single item traits such as aggressive, confident, and assertive according to Tukey's tests. The floral fragrance produced significantly (p<.05) lower ratings in these instances. The findings suggest that compositional components of fragrances (olfactory cues) were used in formation of impressions. This has implications for research of the role of olfactory cues in social and professional interactions.

scholarly journals Hamsters' (Mesocricetus auratus) memory in a radial maze analog: The role of spatial versus olfactory cues.

2012 ◽  
Vol 126 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-86
Author(s):  
François Tonneau ◽  
Felipe Cabrera ◽  
Alejandro Corujo
Keyword(s):  
Radial Maze ◽  
Mesocricetus Auratus ◽  
Olfactory Cues
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