Acquisition of visually guided conditional associative tasks in Göttingen minipigs

Anette Moustgaard; Sidse M. Arnfred; Nanna M. Lind; Ralf Hemmingsen; Axel K. Hansen

doi:10.1016/j.beproc.2004.11.002

Acquisition of visually guided conditional associative tasks in Göttingen minipigs

Anette Moustgaard
, Sidse M. Arnfred
, Nanna M. Lind
, Ralf Hemmingsen
, Axel K. Hansen

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Abstract

Fourteen Göttingen minipigs were trained on two different visually guided conditional associative tasks. In a spatial conditional task, a black stimulus signalled that a response to the left was correct, and a white stimulus signalled that a response to the right was correct. In a conditional go/no-go task, a blue stimulus signalled go, and a red stimulus signalled no-go. The pigs were trained until a behavioural criterion of 90% correct for each of two consecutive sessions. For the spatial conditional task, all pigs reached this criterion in 520 trials or less. For the conditional go/no-go task, all pigs, except three, reached this criterion in 1600 trials or less. Sows and boars learned equally fast. The tasks can be useful for the testing of cognitive function in pig models of human brain disorders.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	97-102
Number of pages	6
Journal	Behavioural Processes
Volume	68
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2004.11.002
Publication status	Published - 31 Jan 2005

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The study was supported by the Lundbeck Foundation, the Novo Nordic Research Foundation, and the H:S Research Foundation. We greatly appreciate the hardware and digital control systems build by S. Christoffersen, Department of Medical Physiology, University of Copenhagen.

Keywords

Conditional associative task
Go/no-go
Learning
Pig
Visual discrimination

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