title: Data on horizontal and vertical movements of zebrafish during appetitive conditioning.
abstract: This article provides supporting data for the research article "A simple automated system for appetitive conditioning of zebrafish in their home tanks" (J.M. Doyle, N. Merovitch, R.C. Wyeth, M.R. Stoyek, M. Schmidt, F. Wilfart, A. Fine, R.P. Croll, 2016) [1]. In that article, we described overall movements of zebrafish toward a food source as a response to auditory or visual cues as conditioned stimuli in a novel learning paradigm. Here, we describe separate analyses of the vertical and horizontal components of the learned response. These data provide evidence that the conditioning might result from both classical conditioning of an innate response of zebrafish to move to the surface in response to food cues and secondary conditioning of the fish to associate a food presentation with a specific location in the tank. Movement data from the twenty trial acquisition period and probe trials from 2-32 days post conditioning are included.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, Canada.
authors.forename: Neil
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Merovitch
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, Canada.
authors.forename: Jillian M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Doyle
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS B2G 2W5, Canada.
authors.forename: Russell C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Wyeth
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Neuroscience, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, Canada.
authors.forename: Matthew R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Stoyek
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, Canada; Department of Anesthesia, Pain Management and Perioperative Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, Canada; School of Biomedical Engineering, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, Canada.
authors.forename: Michael K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Schmidt
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesia, Pain Management and Perioperative Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, Canada; School of Biomedical Engineering, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, Canada.
authors.forename: Florentin M
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Wilfart
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, Canada; School of Biomedical Engineering, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, Canada.
authors.forename: Alan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fine
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, Canada.
authors.forename: Roger P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Croll
keywords: Behaviour; Classical conditioning; High-throughput; Learning; Memory; Zebrafish