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The Environmental Geometry in Spatial Learning by Zebrafish ( Danio rerio )

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Baratti, Greta, Potrich, Davide, Sovrano, Valeria Anna·2020·Zebrafish
DOI 10.1089/zeb.2019.1845
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During navigation, disoriented animals learn to use the spatial geometry of rectangular environments to gain rewards. The length of macroscopic surfaces (metric: short/long) and their spatial arrangement (sense: left/right) are powerful cues that animals prove to encode for reorientation. The aim of this study was to investigate if zebrafish ( Danio rerio ) could take advantage of such geometric properties in a rewarded exit task, by applying a reference memory procedure. The experiment was performed in a rectangular arena having four white walls, where fish were required to choose the two geometrically equivalent exit corners lying on the reinforced diagonal. Results showed that zebrafish encoded the geometry of the arena during reorientation, solving the spatial task within the first 5 days of training. With the aim to avoid the possible influence of extravisual cues on the zebrafish success, we performed a geometric test in extinction of response after the learning day. At test, fish persisted in choosing the two correct corners, thus confirming that the navigation strategy used at training was based on geometric cues. This study adds evidence about the role of geometric frameworks in fish species, and it further validates an effective spatial learning paradigm for zebrafish.

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Authors
Baratti, G., Potrich, D., & Sovrano, V. A.
Affiliations
University of Trento (IT)
Corresponding author
  • Baratti, Greta
  • Sovrano, Valeria Anna
ORCID
Venue
Zebrafish
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2020-03-27
Volume
17
Issue
2
Pages
131-138
ISSN
  • 1545-8547 (ISSN-L)
  • 1557-8542
DOI
10.1089/zeb.2019.1845
OpenAlex
W3012289901
Cited by
22
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0
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 3
FWCI
1.39
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
  • Zebrafish (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Institutional Research Information System (Università degli Studi di Trento) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Spatial Cognition and Navigation
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cell Biology › Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications
Keywords
spatial learning, environmental geometry, geometric cues, reference memory, reorientation, spatial navigation, fish cognition
MeSH terms
Orientation, Spatial, Animals, Cues, Male, Zebrafish, Spatial Learning

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