SYMPOSIUM 9

Operant Conditioning Paradigms, Techniques and Tools

Oral presentations
Friday, August 18, 13:30-16:50, Large Auditorium
Chair: F.J. van der Staay (Wuppertal, Germany)

13:30

O. Güntürkün, B. Diekamp and S. Lissek (Bochum, Germany). Strategies in birds: new methods to study reversal learning in pigeons.

13:50

D.N. Stephens (Brighton, United Kingdom). The mouse as a subject in operant studies.

14:20

H.S. Crofts, B.J. Sahakian, A.C. Roberts and T.W. Robbins (Cambridge, United Kingdom). The use of comparable neuropsychological tests in non-human primates and man.

14:50

Coffee break

15:20

A. Blokland (Maastricht, The Netherlands). Reaction time responding in rats.

15:40

J.J. Cooper and G.J. Mason (Grantham, United Kingdom). Measuring behavioural priorities in captive animals.

16:10

J.D. Rowan, S.B. Fountain, S.M.A. Kundey and C.L. Miner (Macon, GA, U.S.A.). A multiple species approach to sequential learning: are you a man or a mouse?

16:30

L. Lewejohann and N. Sachser (Münster, Germany). Mice at work: rating of housing conditions by means of an operant task.

Poster presentations and demonstrations
Thursday, August 17, 14:00-17:30

9.1.

T.J. Zarcone and S. C. Fowler (Lawrence, KS, U.S.A.). Quantitation of operant nose press force maintained in CD-1, BALB/c and C57BL/6 mice.

9.2.

I.H. Iversen (Jacksonville, FL, U.S.A.). Making totally paralyzed patients 'move' by translating their brainwaves into cursor action on a monitor.

9.3.

N. Khonicheva and K. Nikolskaya (Moscow, Russia). Sequential analysis and attention.

9.4.

V. Kostenkova and K. Nikolskaya (Moscow, Russia). A new approach to studying individual peculiarities of learning and memory in animals.

9.5.

V.L. Tsibulsky and A.B. Norman (Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.). A program for the design and analysis of drug self-administration studies according to a novel pharmacokinetic / pharmacodynamic model.

9.6.

E.L. Decker, E.S. Frimer, S.W. Hansen and M. Bak Jensen (Tjele, Denmark). Measuring behaviour: let the animals do all the work.

9.7.

P. Dibbets, J.H.R. Maes and J.M.H. Vossen (Nijmegen, The Netherlands). Operant conditioning using a Human Skinner box.