Testing Visual Sensitivity to the Speed and Direction of Motion in Lizards

Hi, I'm Kevin Wu from the Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior at Macquarie University here in Sydney, Australia. In this video-based article, I'm gonna be talking about testing motion sensitivity and lizards. And when I talk about testing motion sensitivity, I'm talking about using an operating conditioning paradigm.

And when I'm talking about upper and conditioning, that's when you take a subject animal participant or human and teach them the characteristics about an object in which they hope to learn and respond to appropriately when the object is presented and hopes to get reinforced for that response. Now, offering conditioning generally allows us to understand two things. One, it allows us to understand a learning and memory sensor or capacity, and two, it allows us to understand the sensory capacity of that particular individual or species.