title: Observational learning of duration discrimination in rats (Rattus norvegicus).
abstract: Hungry `observer' rats watched at trained conspecific `demonstrators' performing a duration discrimination (1 vs. 8 s sound) before being themselves exposed to the same task. Performance of `observer' rats was compared with that of naive control rats who learned the same task without observing a demonstrator. Statistical analysis showed that observing a trained demonstrator significantly contributed to the rapid discovery of the relationship between a particular duration and its related response patterns or stimuli, increasing learning speed with regard to the control animals.
authors.affiliation: Cognitive Psychology Laboratory, University of Liège, 5 bd du Rectorat, B32, 4000 Liège, Belgium.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Simons
authors.affiliation: Psychobiology of Temporal Processes Unit, University of Liège, 5 bd du Rectorat, B32, 4000 Liège, Belgium.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Lejeune