Olfactory processing of spatial information in hamsters
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- William Thomas Tomlinson (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
- Advisor
- Timothy D. Johnston
Abstract: The purpose of this research was to elucidate the nature and ontogeny of spatial information processing in hamsters. The study consisted of a series of spatial tasks administered to hamsters reared under different conditions. Experiment 1 demonstrated that hamsters reared on solid food, but not hamsters reared on a liquid diet, increased their exploratory behavior after a change in the spatial location of two odor cues when forced to adopt an allocentric frame of reference. Experiment 2 showed that 1iquid-reared hamsters could detect a change in the spatial location of odor cues if allowed to adopt an egocentric frame of reference. Experiment 3 showed that the liquid-reared hamsters could detect a change in the spatial location of two visual cues when forced to adopt an allocentric frame of reference. Experiment 4 compared a group of hamsters which experienced restricted exploratory experiences early in development with the 1iquid-reared and normally-reared animals tested in Experiment 1. A series of orthogonal comparisons indicated that the normally-reared group differed from both experimental groups. The restricted-rearing group and the 1iquid-rearing group did not differ and both failed to detect a change in the spatial location of odor cues from an allocentric frame of reference.
Olfactory processing of spatial information in hamsters
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Dissertation
- Language: English
- Date: 1989
- Subjects
- Spatial behavior in animals
- Space perception
- Hamsters $x Experiments