Brain mechanism of the enhanced impulsiveness by competitive foraging

2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 22570070
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Animal physiology/Animal behavior
• Research Institution: Hokkaido University
• Principal Investigator: MATSUSHIMA Toshiya 北海道大学, 大学院・理学研究院, 教授 (40190459)
• Project Period (FY): 2010 – 2012
• Keywords: 神経行動

Research Abstract

In order to optimize their foraging, animals should not attack all of the food they encountered. Instead, they must choose based on the evaluation of food items by the profitability, which is product of the amount and the proximity of the each food. It is however not uniquely determined, but is highly context-dependent, as to if priority should go to the amount or the proximity. It has been shown that experience of competitive foraging in group of individuals lead to enhanced impulsiveness so that newly hatched chicks made proximity-oriented choices. We also found that the competitive foraging suppresses the neuronal signals that represent anticipated food reward. The suppressive process is supposed to be involved in the control of temporal discounting.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Sympatric divergence of risk sensitivity and diet menus in three species of tit (2012)
  • Author(s): Kawamori, A., Matsushima,T.
  • Journal Title: Animal Behaviour Volume: 84 Pages: 1001-1012
  • URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.07.026
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Preference for biological motion in domestic chicks: sex-dependent effect of early visual experience (2012)
  • Author(s): Miura, M., Matsushima,T.
  • Journal Title: Animal Cognition Volume: 15 Pages: 871-879
  • DOI: DOI：10.1007/s10071-012-0514-x
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Activation of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF)/TrkB signaling accompanying filial imprinting in domestic chicks (Gallus gallus domesticus). (2011)
  • Author(s): Yamaguchi, S., Aoki, N., Kobayashi, D., Kitajima, T., Iikubo, E., Katagiri, S., Matsushima, T., Homma,K.-J.
  • Journal Title: NeuroReport Volume: 22 Pages: 929-934
  • DOI: doi:10.1097/WNR.0b013e32834d0be7
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Social facilitation revisited: increase in foraging efforts and synchronization of running in domestic chicks (2011)
  • Author(s): Ogura, Y., Matsushima,T.
  • Journal Title: Frontier in Neuroscience Volume: 5 Pages: 1-12
  • DOI: doi:10.3389/fnins.2011.00091
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Instantaneous and cumulative influences of competition on impulsive choices in domestic chicks (2011)
  • Author(s): Amita, H., Matsushima,T.
  • Journal Title: Frontier in Neuroscience Volume: 5 Pages: 1-8
  • DOI: doi:10.3389/fnins.2011.00101
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Molecular function of microtubule-associated protein 2for filial imprinting in domestic chicks (Gallus gallus domesticus) (2010)
  • Author(s): Yamaguchi, S., Katagiri, S., Aoki, N., Iikubo E., Kitajima, T., Matsushima, T. , Homma,K.-J.
  • Journal Title: Neuroscience Research Volume: 69 Pages: 32-40
  • DOI: doi:10.1016/j.neures.2010.09.002
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Bioluminescence imaging of c-fos gene expression accompanying filial imprinting in the newly hatched chick brain (2010)
  • Author(s): Yamaguchi, S., Fujii-Taira, I., Hirose N., Kitajima, T., Katagiri, S., Kawamori, A., Matsushima, T. , Homma,K.-J.
  • Journal Title: Neuroscience Research Volume: 67 Pages: 192-195
  • DOI: doi:10.1016/j.neures.2010.02.007
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Social influences of competition on impulsive choices in domestic chicks (2010)
  • Author(s): Amita, H., Kawamori, A., Matsushima,T.
  • Journal Title: Biology Letters Volume: 6 Pages: 183-186
  • DOI: DOI:10.1098/rsbl.2009.0748
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Subjective value of risky foods for individual domestic chicks: a hierarchical Bayesian model. (2010)
  • Author(s): Kawamori, A., Matsushima,T.
  • Journal Title: Animal Cognition Volume: 13 Pages: 431-441
  • DOI: DOI:10.1007/s10071-009-0293-1
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Thyroid hormone determines the start of the sensitive period of imprinting and primes later learning
  • Author(s): Yamaguchi, S., Aoki, N., Kitajima, T.Iikubo, E., Katagiri, S., Matsushima,T., Homma,K.J.
  • Journal Title: Nature Communications Volume: 3 Pages: 1081
  • DOI: DOI:10.1038/ncomms2088
  • URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.07.026
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] 価値と決定の多元性に関する神経生態学的根拠について (2012)
  • Author(s): 松島俊也
  • Organizer: ASCONE(日本神経回路学会オータムスクール)
  • Place of Presentation: かたくら諏訪湖ホテル、諏訪市、長野
  • Year and Date: 2012-11-26
• [Presentation] Social facilitation in domestic chicks: increase in foraging efforts and synchronization of running (2012)
  • Author(s): Ogura Y., Matsushima T.
  • Organizer: SfN2012 (42nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience
  • Place of Presentation: Convention Center, New Orleans, USA
  • Year and Date: 2012-10-17
• [Presentation] Rapidinflow of thyroid hormone induced byvisual imprinting primes later learning (2012)
  • Author(s): Aoki N., Yamaguchi S., Kitajima T
  • Organizer: SfN2012 (42nd Annual Meeting of theSociety for Neuroscience
  • Place of Presentation: Convention Center, New Orleans, USA
  • Year and Date: 2012-10-17
• [Presentation] Chick economics: competitive M a t su s hi m a T .Homma K.-J. (poster) Rapidforaging socially increases workinflow of thyroid hormone induced by visual imprinting primes later learning (2012)
  • Author(s): Ogura Y, Amita H, M at ushimaT
  • Organizer: SfN2012 (42nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience)
  • Place of Presentation: Convention Center, New Orleans, USA.investment and chronically enhances impulsive choices. (Oral presentation at participant symposium, The 9th International Congress of Neuroethology, August 2-7, 2010, Congress Auditorium,Salamanca, Spain
  • Year and Date: 2012-10-17
• [Presentation] Chick economics: competitive M a t su s hi m a T .Homma K.-J. (poster) Rapidforaging socially increases workinflow of thyroid hormone induced by visual imprinting primes later learning. (2012)
  • Author(s): Ogura Y, Amita H, Matsushima T
  • Organizer: SfN2012 (42nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience)
  • Place of Presentation: Convention Center, New Orleans, USA.investment and chronically enhances impulsive choices. (Oral presentation at participant symposium, The 9th International Congress of Neuroethology, August 2-7, 2010, Congress Auditorium,Salamanca, Spain
  • Year and Date: 2012-10-17
• [Presentation] Chick neuro-economics: profitability, risk and competition. (2012)
  • Author(s): MatsushimaT
  • Organizer: In: ICN2012 (10 th International Congress of Neuroethology)
  • Place of Presentation: University of Maryland, Maryland, USA.
  • Year and Date: 2012-08-10
• [Presentation] 競争、衝動性、同調:ヒヨコから見る集団のダイナミクス (2012)
  • Author(s): 松島俊也
  • Organizer: 「スワーム:群れの創発的挙動生成」(SICE、システム・情報部門、スワームロボティックス調査研究会)
  • Place of Presentation: 京都大学、京都
  • Year and Date: 2012-07-20
• [Presentation] Competitive foraging context nullifies the neural representation of anticipated/gained rewards in nucleus accumbens and medial striatum of the domestic chick. (2011)
  • Author(s): Amita H., MatsushimaT
  • Organizer: Annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience
  • Place of Presentation: W.E. Washington Convention Center, Washington DC, USA
  • Year and Date: 20111112-1116
• [Presentation] 競争と意思決定、ただしヒヨコの場合 (2011)
  • Author(s): 松島俊也
  • Organizer: 日本生態学会第58回大会
  • Place of Presentation: 札幌コンベンションセンター、札幌、北海道
  • Year and Date: 20110308-0312
• [Presentation] 衝動性の二つの理由:神経生態学の試み (2011)
  • Author(s): 松島俊也
  • Organizer: 第9回北海道大学脳科学研究教育センターシンポジウム「高次脳機能のメカニズム」
  • Place of Presentation: 北海道大学、札幌
  • Year and Date: 2011-12-02
• [Presentation] 神経行動学入門、行動学南の学校 (2010)
  • Author(s): 松島俊也
  • Organizer: 日本動物行動学会第29回大会
  • Place of Presentation: 沖縄県男女共同参画センターティルル、那覇、沖縄
  • Year and Date: 20101119-1121
• [Presentation] Chick economics: some good reasons to be impulsive (2010)
  • Author(s): MatsushimaMatsushima T .
  • Organizer: Invited talk at Rovereto Workshop on Cognition and Evolution
  • Place of Presentation: University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy
  • Year and Date: 20100518-0520
• [Presentation] Imprinting induces predisposed preference to biological motion in newly-hatched domestic chicks (2010)
  • Author(s): Miura M, Matsushima T .
  • Organizer: (Poster at Rovereto Workshop on Cognition and Evolution)
  • Place of Presentation: University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy
  • Year and Date: 20100518-0520
• [Book] あるだろうか?
  • Author(s): 松島俊也
  • Total Pages: 191
  • Publisher: 朝日