ArticleiScience2019
Zebrafish Exploit Visual Cues and Geometric Relationships to Form a Spatial Memory.
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- Inhibition mediated by group III metabotropic glutamate receptors regulates habenula activity and defensive behaviors.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Zebrafish as a Model Organism for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Insights into Stress Mechanisms and Behavioral Assays.Biology · 2025Review
- Evidence for Auditory Stimulus-Specific Adaptation But Not Deviance Detection in Larval Zebrafish Brains.The Journal of comparative neurology · 2025Article
- EVIDENCE FOR AUDITORY STIMULUS-SPECIFIC ADAPTATION BUT NOT DEVIANCE DETECTION IN LARVAL ZEBRAFISH BRAINS.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- The ram cichlid (Mikrogeophagus ramirezi) learns an associative task: a new fish species for memory research.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Two Are Better Than One: Integrating Spatial Geometry with a Conspicuous Landmark in Zebrafish Reorientation Behavior.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Standardizing Zebrafish Behavioral Paradigms Across Life Stages: An Effort Towards Translational Pharmacology.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2022Review
- Learning Deficits and Attenuated Adaptive Stress Response After Early-Life Seizures in Zebrafish.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Ongoing habenular activity is driven by forebrain networks and modulated by olfactory stimuli.Current biology : CB · 2021Article
- Spatial Cognition in Teleost Fish: Strategies and Mechanisms.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Review
- Optimized protocol for conditioned place avoidance learning in juvenile zebrafish.STAR protocols · 2021Article
- Distributed chromatic processing at the interface between retina and brain in the larval zebrafish.Current biology : CB · 2021Article
- Learning-dependent neuronal activity across the larval zebrafish brain.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2021Review
- Molecular classification of zebrafish retinal ganglion cells links genes to cell types to behavior.Neuron · 2021Article
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Abstract
Animals use salient cues to navigate in their environment, but their specific cognitive strategies are largely unknown. We developed a conditioned place avoidance paradigm to discover whether and how zebrafish form spatial memories. In less than an hour, juvenile zebrafish, as young as 3 weeks, learned to avoid the arm of a Y-maze that was cued with a mild electric shock. Interestingly, individual fish solved this task in different ways: by staying in the safe center of the maze or by preference for one, or both, of the safe arms. In experiments in which the learned patterns were swapped, rotated, or replaced, the animals could transfer the association of safety to a different arm or to a different pattern using either visual cues or location as the conditioned stimulus. These findings show that juvenile zebrafish exhibit several complementary spatial learning modes, which generate a flexible repertoire of behavioral strategies.
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