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Claremont McKenna College – Pitzer College – Scripps College

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Behavior

Operant Conditioning Task to Measure Song Preference in Zebra Finches

Melissa J. Coleman¹, David Saxon¹, Anastasia Robbins¹, Natalie Lillie¹, Nancy F. Day²

¹W.M. Keck Science Department, Claremont McKenna College – Pitzer College – Scripps College, ²Department of Psychology, Whitman College

We describe a technique to evaluate song preference in zebra finches. Females are placed in a two-chambered cage and song preference is measured by the number of times she triggers the playback of one song by landing on a perch within one chamber, compared with triggering a different song in the second chamber. Perch landings are counted using infrared sensors.