Automated auditory recognition training and testing.
Automated auditory recognition training and testing.
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DOI：
10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.05.003
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发表时间：
2011-08-01
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影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Woolley, Sarah M. N.
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作者：
Gess, Austen;Schneider, David M.;Vyas, Akshat;Woolley, Sarah M. N.
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动物听觉识别技能的实验室训练和测试对于理解依赖于听觉线索的动物通信系统非常重要。鸣禽通常被研究，因为它们具有学习复杂发声的特殊能力。近年来，人们对鸣禽感知能力的兴趣日益浓厚，这增加了对实验室行为训练和测试范式的需求。在这里，我们描述和展示了成功的听觉辨别实验的方法，包括所有必要的硬件，培训程序和免费提供的，多功能的软件。该系统可以运行几种行为训练和测试范式，包括操作性（go-nogo，刺激偏好和两种选择的强迫选择）和经典条件反射任务。软件和一些硬件组件可以用于任何学习和响应感官线索的实验室动物。外围硬件和训练程序设计用于鸣禽和听觉刺激。使用go-nogo范式的训练系统，我们表明，成年斑胸草雀学习识别和正确分类个别女性的电话和男性的歌曲。我们还表明，学习任务概括为新的刺激类;鸟类学习任务与调用随后学会识别歌曲的速度比鸟类学习任务和歌曲在同一时间。
Laboratory training and testing of auditory recognition skills in animals is important for understanding animal communication systems that depend on auditory cues. Songbirds are commonly studied because of their exceptional ability to learn complex vocalizations. In recent years, mounting interest in the perceptual abilities of songbirds has increased the demand for laboratory behavioural training and testing paradigms. Here, we describe and demonstrate the success of a method for auditory discrimination experiments, including all the necessary hardware, training procedures and freely-available, versatile software. The system can run several behavioural training and testing paradigms, including operant (go-nogo, stimulus preference, and two-alternative forced choice) and classical conditioning tasks. The software and some hardware components can be used with any laboratory animal that learns and responds to sensory cues. The peripheral hardware and training procedures are designed for use with songbirds and auditory stimuli. Using the go-nogo paradigm of the training system, we show that adult zebra finches learn to recognize and correctly classify individual female calls and male songs. We also show that learning the task generalizes to new stimulus classes; birds that learned the task with calls subsequently learned to recognize songs faster than did birds that learned the task and songs at the same time.
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影响因子：
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