Navigation in a Space With Moving Objects: Rats Can Avoid Specific Locations Defined With Respect to a Moving Robot

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RIV/67985823:_____/20:00535782 RIV/00216208:11310/20:10422976

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbeh.2020.576350/full" target="_blank" >https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbeh.2020.576350/full</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2020.576350" target="_blank" >10.3389/fnbeh.2020.576350</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Navigation in a Space With Moving Objects: Rats Can Avoid Specific Locations Defined With Respect to a Moving Robot

Original language description

Animals can organize their behavior with respect to other moving animals or objects; when hunting or escaping a predator, when migrating in groups or during various social interactions. In rats, we aimed to characterize spatial behaviors relative to moving objects and to explore the cognitive mechanisms controlling these behaviors. Three groups of animals were trained to avoid a mild foot-shock delivered in one of three positions: either in front, on the left side, or on the right side of a moving robot. We showed the rats can recognize and avoid these specific areas. The avoidance behavior specific for the left or right side of the robot demonstrated animals not only react to “simple” stimuli such as increasing noise level or growing retinal image of an approaching object, but they process their spatial position relative to the object. Using an all-white robot without prominent visual patterns that would distinguish its different sides, we showed that the behavior does not depend on responses to prominent visual patterns, but that the rats can guide their navigation according to geometrical spatial relationship relative to the moving object. Rats’ competence for navigation in space defined by a moving object resembles navigation abilities in stationary space. Recording of hippocampal single unit activity during rat’s interaction with the robot proved feasibility of the task to uncover neuronal mechanism of this type of navigation.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10620 - Other biological topics

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

ISSN

1662-5153

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

14

Issue of the periodical within the volume

"Article Number: 576350"

Country of publishing house

SE - SWEDEN

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

1-13

UT code for WoS article

000592236700001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85096636399