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ArticleAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI2026

How to Make Your Fish Work for You: Tips from Ethology and Ecology for Finding Appropriate Unconditioned Stimuli for Learning Studies with

Robert Gerlai

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Article in Animals : an open access journal from MDPI, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Robert GerlaiDepartment of Psychological & Brain Sciences, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-5514-3859

Funding

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada 311637
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A key requirement of associative learning studies is the ability to motivate the subject to acquire memory of the conditioned stimulus-unconditioned stimulus (CS-US) association. Although

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associative learning and memoryclassical conditioningethologymotivationrewardzebrafish

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PMID41828945
PMCPMC12984930

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