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  • Ethology
  • Animal Behavior

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  • Stress coping styles influence behavioral and physiological responses.
  • Cognitive traits may be biased by an individual's stress coping style.
  • Understanding these biases is crucial for comprehending adaptive behaviors.

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  • To investigate learning and memory differences between proactive and reactive stress coping styles in zebrafish (Danio rerio).
  • To assess how associative fear conditioning is affected by distinct stress coping strategies.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized an associative fear conditioning paradigm in zebrafish.
  • Trained fish to associate a specific context with an olfactory alarm cue.
  • Assessed learning rate and memory duration across different stress coping styles.

Main Results:

  • Both proactive and reactive zebrafish learned and recalled the fear association.
  • Reactive zebrafish demonstrated a significantly faster fear memory acquisition rate compared to proactive zebrafish.
  • While memory recall was similar at one day, reactive zebrafish showed stronger recall at four days post-conditioning.

Conclusions:

  • Stress coping styles significantly interact with cognitive processes like learning and memory.
  • Reactive stress coping is associated with enhanced fear memory formation and retention in zebrafish.
  • These findings offer insights into the neural mechanisms underlying stress responses and cognitive biases.