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DOI	10.1111/1749-4877.12622
	Evidence for the effect of brief exposure to food, but not learning interference, on maze solving in desert ants
	Gilad, Tomer; Dorfman, Arik; Subach, Aziz; Libbrecht, Romain; Foitzik, Susanne; Scharf, Inon
通讯作者	Scharf, I (corresponding author)，Tel Aviv Univ, Fac Life Sci, Sch Zool, IL-69978 Tel Aviv, Israel.
来源期刊	INTEGRATIVE ZOOLOGY
ISSN	1749-4877
EISSN	1749-4869
出版年	2022-01
英文摘要	Theories of forgetting highlight 2 active mechanisms through which animals forget prior knowledge by reciprocal disruption of memories. According to proactive interference, information learned previously interferes with the acquisition of new information, whereas retroactive interference suggests that newly gathered information interferes with already existing information. Our goal was to examine the possible effect of both mechanisms in the desert ant Cataglyphis niger, which does not use pheromone recruitment, when learning spatial information while searching for food in a maze. Our experiment indicated that neither proactive nor retroactive interference took place in this system although this awaits confirmation with individual-level learning assays. Rather, the ants' persistence or readiness to search for food grew with successive runs in the maze. Elevated persistence led to more ant workers arriving at the food when retested a day later, even if the maze was shifted between runs. We support this finding in a second experiment, where ant workers reached the food reward at the maze end in higher numbers after encountering food in the maze entry compared to a treatment, in which food was present only at the maze end. This result suggests that spatial learning and search persistence are 2 parallel behavioral mechanisms, both assisting foraging ants. We suggest that their relative contribution should depend on habitat complexity.
英文关键词	binary-tree maze desert ants forgetting memory motivation
类型	Article ; Early Access
语种	英语
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000745934800001
WOS关键词	RETROACTIVE INTERFERENCE ; PREDATION-RISK ; RECRUITMENT BEHAVIOR ; FORAGING-EFFICIENCY ; BUMBLE BEES ; MEMORY ; INFORMATION ; PERFORMANCE ; LANDMARK ; HUNGER
WOS类目	Zoology
WOS研究方向	Zoology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/377090
作者单位	[Gilad, Tomer; Dorfman, Arik; Subach, Aziz; Scharf, Inon] Tel Aviv Univ, George S Wise Fac Life Sci, Sch Zool, Tel Aviv, Israel; [Libbrecht, Romain; Foitzik, Susanne] Johannes Gutenberg Univ Mainz, Inst Organism & Mol Evolut, Mainz, Germany
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Gilad, Tomer,Dorfman, Arik,Subach, Aziz,et al. Evidence for the effect of brief exposure to food, but not learning interference, on maze solving in desert ants[J],2022.
APA	Gilad, Tomer,Dorfman, Arik,Subach, Aziz,Libbrecht, Romain,Foitzik, Susanne,&Scharf, Inon.(2022).Evidence for the effect of brief exposure to food, but not learning interference, on maze solving in desert ants.INTEGRATIVE ZOOLOGY.
MLA	Gilad, Tomer,et al."Evidence for the effect of brief exposure to food, but not learning interference, on maze solving in desert ants".INTEGRATIVE ZOOLOGY (2022).