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Conditioned place preference in 12‐day‐old Japanese quail
Author(s) -
Mace Derek D.,
Kraemer Philipp J.,
Akins Chana K.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
developmental psychobiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.055
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1098-2302
pISSN - 0012-1630
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1098-2302(199712)31:4<245::aid-dev2>3.0.co;2-r
Subject(s) - quail , preference , psychology , developmental psychology , biology , endocrinology , statistics , mathematics
Four experiments assessed the ability of 12‐day‐old Japanese quail to learn a conditioned place preference (CPP). In Experiment 1, immature quail learned to prefer a place paired with normal food over a place paired with tainted food. Experiment 2 indicated that this kind of learning can be achieved with as few as 2 days of training. It was discovered in Experiment 3 that place preferences can be established with exposure to only one hedonic event. Quail learned to prefer a chamber paired with either normal food or tainted food over a chamber that did not contain a hedonic stimulus. Experiment 4 successfully replicated the 2‐day normal‐food‐induced place preference in the previous experiment, while also showing that mere context exposure is not sufficient to produce CPP. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Dev Psychobiol 31: 245–254, 1997