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Geometric modules in animals' spatial representations: a test with chicks (Gallus gallus domesticus).

G Vallortigara1, M Zanforlin, G Pasti.   

Abstract

Recent work has shown that in place-finding tasks rats rely on the geometric relations between the goal object and the shape of the environment. We tested young chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus) on similar tasks in a reference memory paradigm to determine whether differences exist between species in the ability to use geometric and nongeometric spatial information. The main findings were that chicks: (a) encoded and used both geometric and nongeometric (featural) information; (b) did not use the overall spatial arrangement of the features; (c) relied primarily on nongeometric cues when faced with contradictory information. Two mechanisms are evident in chicks' spatial representations: a metric frame for encoding the spatial arrangement of surfaces as surfaces and a cue-guidance system for encoding conspicuous landmarks near the target. The possibility of hierarchical organization and species differences in these two mechanisms are discussed.

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Year:  1990        PMID: 2225762     DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.104.3.248

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  J Comp Psychol        ISSN: 0021-9940            Impact factor:   2.231


  28 in total

1.  Spatial reorientation by geometry with freestanding objects and extended surfaces: a unifying view.

Authors:  Tommaso Pecchia; Giorgio Vallortigara
Journal:  Proc Biol Sci       Date:  2012-01-11       Impact factor: 5.349

2.  Local sleep: a spatial learning task enhances sleep in the right hemisphere of domestic chicks (Gallus gallus).

Authors:  Cristian Nelini; Daniela Bobbo; Gian Gastone Mascetti
Journal:  Exp Brain Res       Date:  2010-07-13       Impact factor: 1.972

Review 3.  Is there a geometric module for spatial orientation? Squaring theory and evidence.

Authors:  Ken Cheng; Nora S Newcombe
Journal:  Psychon Bull Rev       Date:  2005-02

4.  Spatial encoding in mountain chickadees: features overshadow geometry.

Authors:  Emily R Gray; Laurie L Bloomfield; Anne Ferrey; Marcia L Spetch; Christopher B Sturdy
Journal:  Biol Lett       Date:  2005-09-22       Impact factor: 3.703

5.  A neural-network reinforcement-learning model of domestic chicks that learn to localize the centre of closed arenas.

Authors:  Francesco Mannella; Gianluca Baldassarre
Journal:  Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci       Date:  2007-03-29       Impact factor: 6.237

Review 6.  25 years of research on the use of geometry in spatial reorientation: a current theoretical perspective.

Authors:  Ken Cheng; Janellen Huttenlocher; Nora S Newcombe
Journal:  Psychon Bull Rev       Date:  2013-12

7.  Monocular learning of a spatial task enhances sleep in the right hemisphere of domestic chicks (Gallus gallus).

Authors:  Cristian Nelini; Daniela Bobbo; Gian G Mascetti
Journal:  Exp Brain Res       Date:  2012-02-19       Impact factor: 1.972

Review 8.  Two systems of spatial representation underlying navigation.

Authors:  Sang Ah Lee; Elizabeth S Spelke
Journal:  Exp Brain Res       Date:  2010-07-08       Impact factor: 1.972

9.  Learning building layouts with non-geometric visual information: the effects of visual impairment and age.

Authors:  Amy A Kalia; Gordon E Legge; Nicholas A Giudice
Journal:  Perception       Date:  2008       Impact factor: 1.490

10.  Bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orang utans use feature and spatial cues in two spatial memory tasks.

Authors:  Patricia Kanngiesser; Josep Call
Journal:  Anim Cogn       Date:  2009-11-13       Impact factor: 3.084

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