ArticlePloS one2016
Detour Behavior of Mice Trained with Transparent, Semitransparent and Opaque Barriers.
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- Inhibitory control tests in non-human animals: validity, reliability, and perspectives.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025Review
- Lizards and tortoises show evidence of low inhibitory control.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- A Comparison of Detour Behaviors in Some Marine and Freshwater Fish Species.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Genetic and context-specific effects on individual inhibitory control performance in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata).Journal of evolutionary biology · 2023Article
- Companion Cats Show No Effect of Trial-and-Error Learning Compared to Dogs in a Transparent-Obstacle Detour Task.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Enhanced problem-solving ability as an adaptation to urban environments in house mice.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Direct Approach or Detour: A Comparative Model of Inhibition and Neural Ensemble Size in Behavior Selection.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2021Article
- Predictors of individual variation in reversal learning performance in three-spined sticklebacks.Animal cognition · 2020Article
- Individual performance across motoric self-regulation tasks are not correlated for pet dogs.Learning & behavior · 2018Article
- The detour paradigm in animal cognition.Animal cognition · 2018Review
- Consistency and flexibility in solving spatial tasks: different horses show different cognitive styles.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- The Development of Motor Self-Regulation in Ravens.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Article
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Abstract
Detour tasks are commonly used to study problem solving skills and inhibitory control in canids and primates. However, there is no comparable detour test designed for rodents despite its significance for studying the development of executive skills. Furthermore, mice offer research opportunities that are not currently possible to achieve when primates are used. Therefore, the aim of the study was to translate the classic detour task to mice and to compare obtained data with key findings obtained previously in other mammals. The experiment was performed with V-shaped barriers and was based on the water escape paradigm. The study showed that an apparently simple task requiring mice to move around a small barrier constituted in fact a challenge that was strongly affected by the visibility of the target. The most difficult task involved a completely transparent barrier, which forced the mice to resolve a conflict between vision and tactile perception. The performance depended both on the inhibitory skills and on previous experiences. Additionally, all mice displayed a preference for one side of the barrier and most of them relied on the egocentric strategy. Obtained results show for the first time that the behavior of mice subjected to the detour task is comparable to the behavior of other mammals tested previously with free-standing barriers. This detailed characterization of the detour behavior of mice constitutes the first step toward the substitution of rodents for primates in laboratory experiments employing the detour task.
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