Fish (Tilapia aurea), as rats, learn shuttle better than lever-bumping (press) avoidance tasks: a suggestion for functionally similar universal reactions to a conditioned fear-arousing stimulus.
Fish learned a shuttle avoidance task faster than a lever-bumping task. The latter task was hardly mastered at all. These and other results tend to support the suggestion for functionally similar universal reactions to a conditioned fear-arousing stimulus.
D000818:Animals; D001362:Avoidance Learning; D003214:Conditioning, Classical; D005239:Fear; D005399:Fishes; D011930:Reaction Time