Publication Date:
1978-09-29
Description:
The nudibranch mollusk Hermissenda crassicornis is normally attracted to a test light. Three days of training consisting of 50 trials per day of light paired with a rotational stimulus led to a significant increase, lasting for days, in the animal's response latency to enter a test light. The group that received light associated with rotation was significantly different from groups subjected to nonassociative control procedures. Modifications of well-known sensory networks may be related to a behavioral change that shares several operational features with associative learning.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Crow, T J -- Alkon, D L -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1978 Sep 29;201(4362):1239-41.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/694512" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Association Learning/*physiology
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Behavior, Animal/physiology
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Learning/*physiology
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Light
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Memory/*physiology
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Mollusca/*physiology
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Retention (Psychology)/*physiology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
