This study reveals that T. carbonaria also prefer warmer nectar at ambient temperatures up to 30°C and can use a spatial cue (position of the feeder) to find it.
We used a modified spatial cueing task to assess the speed of engagement and disengagement from supraliminal and masked pictorial cues depicting threat, dysphoria, or neutral content in 36 clinically anxious, 41 depressed and 41 control participants.
Fox et al. (2001) used a modified spatial cueing paradigm (adapted from research by Posner, Inhoff, Friedrich, & Cohen, 1987) to investigate whether the anxiety-related attentional bias operates primarily in shift or disengage functions.
We investigated this issue using two tasks that are generally assumed to measure MSI (a redundant target effect task) and crossmodal exogenous spatial attention (a spatial cueing task).
Observers performed a spatial cueing orientation discrimination task.
In addition, in the version of the task we used (Fan et al., 2002), there were three warning conditions: no cue, centre cue, and a spatial cue that signalled the location of the trial (above or below fixation).
Behavioural studies have used spatial cueing designs extensively to investigate emotional biases in individuals exhibiting clinical and sub-clinical anxiety.
Voluntary deployments of covert attention have been studied extensively using predictive spatial cueing paradigms [1].
The proximal (visible platform) versus distal (hidden platform) cue strategy was used, and spatial cues within the extramaze environment were configured such that the arrangement presented either a double cue or null cull condition relative to the platform location.
In this task, mice are trained daily to find a hidden platform in a circular pool, using external spatial cues to create a map of the environment and assist in navigation.
