LEARNING AND ASSOCIATED PHENOMENA IN INVERTEBRATES.
Abstract
Contents: Learning, world models and pre-adaptation; Paramecia, planaria and pseudo-learning; Studies of the behaviour of Paramecium aurelia; Behavioural studies of the coelenterate Hydra piradi; Behaviour of sessile coelenterates in relation to some conditioning experiments; Adaptive changes in cnidarians; Cannibals, chemicals and contiguity; Behaviour of planaria in instrumental learning paradigms; Learning in planarians; Learning in annelids and attempts at the chemical modification of this behaviour; Learning abilities of nereid polychaetes and the role of the supra-oesophageal ganglion; Research and theory on conditioning of annelids; Descartes, mechanistic biology and animal behaviour; Planarian learning; Learning and movement in octopuses; Discrimination learning in the octopus; Release and orientation of behaviour and the role of learning as demonstrated in crustacea; Aspects of orientation in the diggerwasp Bembix Rostrata; Electrophysiological approach to learning in isolatable ganglia; Macromolecular coding in nerve cell and embryo.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1964
- Accession Number
- AD0620199
Entities
People
- Demorest Davenport
- W. H. Thorpe
Organizations
- Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour