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Rats that learn to vocalize for food reward emit longer and louder appetitive calls and fewer short aversive calls

PloS one, 2024-02, Vol.19 (2), p.e0297174-e0297174 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright: © 2024 Wardak et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. ;COPYRIGHT 2024 Public Library of Science ;ISSN: 1932-6203 ;EISSN: 1932-6203 ;DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0297174 ;PMID: 38335191

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  • Title:
    Rats that learn to vocalize for food reward emit longer and louder appetitive calls and fewer short aversive calls
  • Author: Wardak, Agnieszka D ; Olszyński, Krzysztof H ; Polowy, Rafał ; Matysiak, Jan ; Filipkowski, Robert K
  • Subjects: Affect ; Analysis ; Animals ; Associative learning ; Emotions ; Evaluation ; Rats ; Rattus ; Reward ; Ultrasonics ; Vocalization, Animal - physiology
  • Is Part Of: PloS one, 2024-02, Vol.19 (2), p.e0297174-e0297174
  • Description: Rats are social animals that use ultrasonic vocalizations (USV) in their intraspecific communication. Several types of USV have been previously described, e.g., appetitive 50-kHz USV and aversive short 22-kHz USV. It is not fully understood which aspects of the USV repertoire play important functions during rat ultrasonic exchange. Here, we investigated features of USV emitted by rats trained in operant conditioning, is a form of associative learning between behavior and its consequences, to reinforce the production/emission of 50-kHz USV. Twenty percent of the trained rats learned to vocalize to receive a reward according to an arbitrarily set criterion, i.e., reaching the maximum number of proper responses by the end of each of the last three USV-training sessions, as well as according to a set of measurements independent from the criterion (e.g., shortening of training sessions). Over the training days, these rats also exhibited: an increasing percentage of rewarded 50-kHz calls, lengthening and amplitude-increasing of 50-kHz calls, and decreasing number of short 22-kHz calls. As a result, the potentially learning rats, when compared to non-learning rats, displayed shorter training sessions and different USV structure, i.e. higher call rates, more rewarded 50-kHz calls, longer and louder 50-kHz calls and fewer short 22-kHz calls. Finally, we reviewed the current literature knowledge regarding different lengths of 50-kHz calls in different behavioral contexts, the potential function of short 22-kHz calls as well as speculate that USV may not easily become an operant response due to their primary biological role, i.e., communication of emotional state between conspecifics.
  • Publisher: United States: Public Library of Science
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1932-6203
    EISSN: 1932-6203
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0297174
    PMID: 38335191
  • Source: Open Access: DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals
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