| Conditioned suppression/avoidance as a procedure for testing hearing in birds: The domestic pigeon (Columba livia). | |
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PMID: 23055174 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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Although the domestic pigeon is commonly used in learning experiments, it is a notoriously difficult subject in auditory psychophysical experiments, even those in which it need only respond when it detects a sound. This is because pigeons tend to respond in the absence of sound-that is, they have a high false-positive rate-which makes it difficult to determine a pigeon's audiogram. However, false positives are easily controlled in the method of conditioned suppression/avoidance, in which a pigeon is trained to peck a key to obtain food and to stop pecking whenever it detects a sound that signals impending electric shock. Here, we describe how to determine psychophysical thresholds in pigeons using a method of conditioned suppression in which avoidable shock is delivered through a bead chain wrapped around the base of a pigeon's wings. The resulting audiogram spans the range from 2 to 8000 Hz; it falls approximately in the middle of the distribution of previous pigeon audiograms and supports the finding of Kreithen and Quine (Journal of Comparative Physiology 129:1-4, 1979) that pigeons hear infrasound. |
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Henry E Heffner; Gimseong Koay; Evan M Hill; Rickye S Heffner |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2012-10-6 |
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Title: Behavior research methods Volume: - ISSN: 1554-3528 ISO Abbreviation: Behav Res Methods Publication Date: 2012 Oct |
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Created Date: 2012-10-11 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 101244316 Medline TA: Behav Res Methods Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Department of Psychology, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, 43606, USA, Henry.Heffner@utoledo.edu. |
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