naa a22 4500 510777481 CHVBK 20180411083235.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130601xx s 000 0 eng 10.3758/s13428-012-0269-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.3758/s13428-012-0269-y Conditioned suppression/avoidance as a procedure for testing hearing in birds: The domestic pigeon ( Columba livia ) [Elektronische Daten] [Henry Heffner, Gimseong Koay, Evan Hill, Rickye Heffner] 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 8000Hz; 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. Psychonomic Society, Inc., 2012 Pigeon nationallicence Conditioned suppression nationallicence Avoidance conditioning nationallicence Psychophysical procedures nationallicence Audiogram nationallicence Infrasound nationallicence Heffner Henry Department of Psychology, University of Toledo, 43606, Toledo, Ohio, USA aut Koay Gimseong Department of Psychology, University of Toledo, 43606, Toledo, Ohio, USA aut Hill Evan Department of Psychology, University of Toledo, 43606, Toledo, Ohio, USA aut Heffner Rickye Department of Psychology, University of Toledo, 43606, Toledo, Ohio, USA aut Behavior Research Methods Springer-Verlag 45/2(2013-06-01), 383-392 45:2<383 2013 45 13428 https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-012-0269-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-012-0269-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Heffner Henry Department of Psychology, University of Toledo, 43606, Toledo, Ohio, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Koay Gimseong Department of Psychology, University of Toledo, 43606, Toledo, Ohio, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hill Evan Department of Psychology, University of Toledo, 43606, Toledo, Ohio, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Heffner Rickye Department of Psychology, University of Toledo, 43606, Toledo, Ohio, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Behavior Research Methods Springer-Verlag 45/2(2013-06-01), 383-392 45:2<383 2013 45 13428 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer