ROLE OF SIGHT, TOUCH, AND SMELL IN LABYRINTH EXPERIMENTS
II.
IV.
TRAINING TESTS
SMOKED
I. NO OF TESTS BEFORE III.
PAPER ON
MALES PRELIMINARY CORRECT LABYRINTH
FLOOR
TEST. _____________________ MOVED.
NO OF TIMES
ERRORS FIRST TIME FIVE TIMES ERRORS
BEFORE COR-
RECT
TWICE
210 9 5 9
0 9 212 2
3 8 1 3 214
6 10 28 0
22 220 25 4 8
0 14 410 11
6 20 0 10 420
14 6 14 1
7
FEMALES
211 16 6 10
1 5 213 7
5 14 1 21 215
2 3 7 0
6 225 14 6 18
0 14 415 6
6 13 0 3 425
10 7 13 0
8
V.
DARKNESS VI.
MALES LABYRINTH VII.
ERRORS IN NO. OF TESTS WASHED. DARKNESS.
FIRST TEST BEFORE COR’CT ERRORS ERRORS
210 0 1
2 0 212 2
2 0 0 214
0 1 —
0 220 2 4
2 0 410 1
3 2 1 420
2 4 1
4
Averages 1.2 2.5 1.2
0.8
211 2 2
0 0 213 2
2 — 3 215
0 1 2
2 225 3 2
0 0 415 1
3 2 1 425
1 7 0 0
Averages 1.5 2.8 0.7
1.0
That covering the floor with smoked paper forced the
mice to relearn the path, in large measure, is evident
from the results of Column IV. An average of
ten tests was necessary to enable the mice to follow
the path correctly. It is almost certain, however,
that the interference with the perfectly formed labyrinth
habit which this change in the condition of the floor
caused was not due to the removal of important tactual
sense data.
