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G Sotelo-Parrilla¹, B Quintero¹, I Trujillo¹

¹Laboratory of Psychobiology, University of Seville, Sevilla, Spain.

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Summary

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Goldfish with hippocampal pallium lesions struggle with transitive inference tasks, suggesting this brain region is crucial for relational memory. This finding indicates a primitive role for the vertebrate hippocampus in expressing learned information.

Keywords:

episodic memory goldfish hippocampal pallium relational memory representational flexibility teleost fish transitive inference vertebrate brain evolution

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Comparative Psychology
Evolutionary Biology

Background:

Transitive inference is key to deductive reasoning and representational flexibility.
Episodic memory and transitive inference rely on the hippocampus in mammals and birds.
A hippocampus homologue exists in teleost fish pallium.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate transitive inference in goldfish.
To determine the role of the goldfish hippocampal pallium in transitive responding.

Main Methods:

Goldfish were trained on a visual transitive inference task (A+B-, B+C-, C+D-, D+E-).
Groups included hippocampal pallium-lesioned goldfish and sham-operated controls.
Performance was assessed on premise pair discrimination and a novel nonadjacent pair test (B vs. D).

Main Results:

Sham-operated goldfish learned premise pairs and responded transitively on the novel test.
Hippocampal pallium-lesioned goldfish learned premise pairs but were impaired in the transitive inference test.

Conclusions:

The goldfish hippocampal pallium is essential for transitive inference, suggesting a role in relational memory.
This indicates that relational memory supporting novel expression of learned information may be an ancient feature of the vertebrate hippocampus.
Findings contribute to understanding the evolutionary origins of episodic memory.