Behavioral responses to linear accelerations in blind goldfish

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Aug 1971

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1971slsci...3...25v&link_type=abstract

Space Life Sciences, Volume 3, Issue 1, pp.25-33

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Blind goldfish were subjected to linear accelerations on a motor car and on a parallel swing. Moyements of the fish in a tank during the accelerations were recorded with a movie camera. During the horizontal acceleration, the fish aligns his longitudinal axis in a plane perpendicular to the direction of an apparent gravity with the fish's back pointing away from the direction of this apparent gravity vector. This is similar to the manner in which the fish usually aligns himself horizontally in response to the vertically downward terrestrial gravity and can therefore be termed ‘gravity reference response’. It is concluded that blind goldfish cannot distinguish between otolith displacements caused by passive tilts and equivalent otolith displacements caused by moderate inertial forces during rectilinear acceleration. With a horizontal jerk of higher magnitude, two additional responses can occur: horizontal 180° turns following tailward jerks and straight forward darting following noseward jerks.

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