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Studies on Conditioned Responses in Fishes. Part V. On the Controlling Influence of Normal Behaviour Traits upon Capacity to Form Experimental Conditioned Motor Responses Under Certain Conditions.*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Herbert O. Bull
Affiliation:
The Dove Marine Laboratory, Armstrong College, University of Durham.

Extract

Normal behaviour traits control the ability of fishes to form conditioned motor responses. This is shown by a series of experiments upon various species of fish in which it is found that Pleuronectids are found incapable of forming such responses for at least 200 associated presentations whilst other fishes have done so in less than 40. The bearing of the results on current theories of animal learning is briefly discussed.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1935

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