Shuttle Box Learning in Zebrafish (Danio Rerio)

Overview

Journal Behav Brain Res

Specialties Neurology
Psychology
Social Sciences

Date 2008 Oct 18

PMID 18926855

Citations 41

Authors

Shalini Pather

Robert Gerlai

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Abstract

Zebrafish is used in forward genetic and drug screening and is gaining popularity in behavioral brain research but high throughput learning paradigms are lacking. The sight of conspecifics has been shown to be rewarding in zebrafish. Here, in a novel paradigm, subjects learn to respond to alternating presentation of computer-animated zebrafish images. The simplicity and computerization of the paradigm will make it useful for high throughput screening.

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