title: Conditioned inhibition of social approach in male Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) using visual exposure to a female.
abstract: Male Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) learned to approach lights that predicted visual exposure to a female quail and showed significantly less approach to lights that predicted the absence of a female quail. Following discrimination training, subjects were given transfer summation tests in which a stimulus positively correlated with female exposure (CS +) was presented alone, simultaneously with a novel stimulus, and simultaneously with a stimulus negatively correlated with female exposure (CS -). Approach to the CS + was lower when the CS + and CS - were presented together than when the CS + was presented alone or when the CS + was presented with a novel stimulus. These findings demonstrate conditioned inhibition of sexual conditioned approach in Japanese quail.
authors.affiliation: Psychology Department, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
authors.forename: L L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Crawford
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Domjan