caa a22 4500 60554171X CHVBK 20210128100918.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10071-014-0802-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10071-014-0802-8 Goal orientation by geometric and feature cues: spatial learning in the terrestrial toad Rhinella arenarum [Elektronische Daten] [María Sotelo, Verner Bingman, Rubén Muzio] Although of crucial importance in vertebrate evolution, amphibians are rarely considered in studies of comparative cognition. Using water as reward, we studied whether the terrestrial toad, Rhinella arenarum, is also capable of encoding geometric and feature information to navigate to a goal location. Experimental toads, partially dehydrated, were trained in either a white rectangular box (Geometry-only, Experiment 1) or in the same box with a removable colored panel (Geometry-Feature, Experiment 2) covering one wall. Four water containers were used, but only one (Geometry-Feature), or two in geometrically equivalent corners (Geometry-only), had water accessible to the trained animals. After learning to successfully locate the water reward, probe trials were carried out by changing the shape of the arena or the location of the feature cue. Probe tests revealed that, under the experimental conditions used, toads can use both geometry and feature to locate a goal location, but geometry is more potent as a navigational cue. The results generally agree with findings from other vertebrates and support the idea that at the behavioral-level geometric orientation is a conserved feature shared by all vertebrates. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2014 Geometric and feature orientation nationallicence Spatial learning nationallicence Toads nationallicence Sotelo María Grupo de Aprendizaje y Cognición Comparada, Laboratorio de Biología del Comportamiento, Instituto de Biología y Medicina Experimental (IBYME-CONICET), Vuelta de Obligado 2490, 1428, Buenos Aires, Argentina aut Bingman Verner Department of Psychology, J.P. Scott Center for Neuroscience, Mind and Behavior, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, USA aut Muzio Rubén Grupo de Aprendizaje y Cognición Comparada, Laboratorio de Biología del Comportamiento, Instituto de Biología y Medicina Experimental (IBYME-CONICET), Vuelta de Obligado 2490, 1428, Buenos Aires, Argentina aut Animal Cognition Springer Berlin Heidelberg 18/1(2015-01-01), 315-323 1435-9448 18:1<315 2015 18 10071 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-014-0802-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-014-0802-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sotelo María Grupo de Aprendizaje y Cognición Comparada, Laboratorio de Biología del Comportamiento, Instituto de Biología y Medicina Experimental (IBYME-CONICET), Vuelta de Obligado 2490, 1428, Buenos Aires, Argentina aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bingman Verner Department of Psychology, J.P. Scott Center for Neuroscience, Mind and Behavior, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Muzio Rubén Grupo de Aprendizaje y Cognición Comparada, Laboratorio de Biología del Comportamiento, Instituto de Biología y Medicina Experimental (IBYME-CONICET), Vuelta de Obligado 2490, 1428, Buenos Aires, Argentina aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Animal Cognition Springer Berlin Heidelberg 18/1(2015-01-01), 315-323 1435-9448 18:1<315 2015 18 10071