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19th Annual Tri-State Conference on Animal Learning & Behavior
Hosted by the Department of Psychology
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
April 7-8, 2006
1801 W. 86th St.
Indianapolis, IN 46260 (317-872-4111)
Sponsors: Department of Psychology, School of Science, Center for Research and Learning
Moderator: Greg Fetterman (IUPUI)
1:00-1:10 Greg Fetterman Welcome*****
1:10-1:30 Categorization of intervals and the subjective passage of time by pigeons.
Thomas Zentall, Andrea Friedrich, Janice Weaver, Tricia Clement
1:30-1:50 What do rats remember in a working-memory object recognition task?
Vara Parameswaran and Anka Matei
1:50-2:10 On the elusive "work ethic" phenomenon
Marco Vasconcelos
2:10-2:30 Rapid reacquisition in Pavlovian learning: The role of memory
Ana Martins
2:30-2:50 Time-dependent effects of amphetamine on periodically assessed progressive ratio performance.
Luke K. Sherrill and Wesley White.
2:50-3:10 Polar bear stereotypic and general acivity under fixed and variable time schedules
Indiana Universiπty
3:10- 3:30 BREAK (refreshments)
3:30-3:50 Social bias in kin versus nonkin-based groups
Aly Haas
3:50-4:10 Changes in velocity of movement as a measure of memory loss following passive-avoidance training.
Gary W. Barnes, Adam R. Bogart, & David C. Riccio
Kent State University
4:10-4:30 The effect of multiple reactivation on the severity of amnesia resulting from hypothermia.
Adam R. Bogart, Gary W. Barnes, & David C. Riccio
4:30-4:50 Allocentric vs Egocentric Vectors in the Water maze
Greg Gistensen
Indiana University
4:50--5:10 Can rats form spatial/cognitive maps in the enclosed radial arm maze?
Xue Han, Ricky Lai, and Jerry Cohen
5:10-5:30 Selecting and testing environmental enrichment in several species of lemur
Indiana University
Dinner at Greg Fetterman’s house (7:00 pm maps to be distributed)
Moderator: Peter Urcuioli (Purdue University)
9:00-9:20 The nature and development of locomotion in elephants
Robert H. I. Dale
9:20-9:35 Social interactions among juvenile southern white rhinos.
Butler University
9:35-9:55 Discounting of delayed saccharin rewards by high alcohol preferring mice
Brandon Oberlin
9:55-10:15 Selectively bred high-alcohol-preferring mice show greater fear-potentiated startle than low-alcohol-preferring mice
Gustavo Barrenha
10:15-10:35 Roles for Circadian Rhythms and Pavlovian Conditioning in Nicotine Addiction?
Andrea Gilman
10:30- 10:50 Training penguins to interact with enrichment items for lasting effects.
Eduardo Fernandez and William Timberlake
Indiana University
10:50 – 11:10 BREAK (refreshments)
Session IIB: Saturday April 8, 2006
Moderator: Tom Zentall (University of Kentucky)
11:10-11:30 Measuring the aversive effects of alcohol withdrawal using the place conditioning procedure
Phil Bohn
11:30-11:50 Carbohydrate generalization of an intestinal taste aversion
Lindsey Schier
11:50-12:10 Central cholinergic systems and sequential learning.
Amber M. Chenoweth & Stephen B. Fountain,
Kent State University.
12:30-12:50 The effects of foraging devices as enrichment in captive walruses.
Indiana University
Others: Julia Chester (Purdue), Peter Urcuioli (Purdue), John Capaldi (Purdue), Terry Davidson (Purdue), Alan Stubbs (Maine), Cassandra Gibson and Holly Miller (Kentucky), Todd Schactman (Missouri), Daren Kaiser (IUPU-Ft. Wayne)
*****Note that as of April 2, 2006, Indiana will begin to observe eastern daylight savings time, a revolution in time for our state.