ArticleAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI2021
Automated Operant Conditioning Devices for Fish. Do They Work?
Article in Animals : an open access journal from MDPI, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.
- ManyFishes: a big team science collaboration on fish comparative cognition.Animal cognition · 2025Review
- Habituation with apparatus and group testing improves assessment of fish preferences.Journal of fish biology · 2025Article
- GoFish: a foray into open-source, aquatic behavioral automation.Journal of fish biology · 2025Article
- A framework for a low-cost system of automated gate control in assays of spatial cognition in fishes.Journal of fish biology · 2025Article
- Visual Discrimination Task in Guppies Using a Simultaneous Matching-to-Sample Procedure.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Using an Automated Operant Conditioning Procedure to Test Colour Discrimination in Two Juvenile Piranhas,Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- GoFish: A low-cost, open-source platform for closed-loop behavioural experiments on fish.Behavior research methods · 2024Article
- Two Are Better Than One: Integrating Spatial Geometry with a Conspicuous Landmark in Zebrafish Reorientation Behavior.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Zebrafish excel in number discrimination under an operant conditioning paradigm.Animal cognition · 2022Article
- Cognitive individual differences are key in the network of trait covariance.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
The growing use of teleosts in comparative cognition and in neurobiological research has prompted many researchers to develop automated conditioning devices for fish. These techniques can make research less expensive and fully comparable with research on warm-blooded species, in which automated devices have been used for more than a century. Tested with a recently developed automated device, guppies (
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