Research in crustaceans offers a valuable perspective for studying the neural
implementation of conserved behavioral phenomena, including motivation, escape …

Signaled avoidance learning in crayfish (Procambarus clarkii) was investigated when the
crayfish were not confined, by indexing two types of locomotive movement to the escape …

Previous studies have demonstrated that animals use both environmental cues and
egocentric information when orienting in mazes or nature. These two strategies have been …

Results of recent work from our labs and those of others have broadened perspectives on
addiction beyond a human-specific, cognitive phenomenon. Addictive plant alkaloids are …

Associative learning, such as classical or operant conditioning, has never been
unequivocally associated with animals outside bilatarians, eg, vertebrates, arthropods, or …

Operant conditioning is fundamental to many animal behaviour experiments, including the
alternative forced-choice (AFC) task, a powerful and popular paradigm for establishing …

Operant conditioning is a common tool for studying cognitive aspects of brain functions. As
the first step toward understanding those functions in simple invertebrate microbrains, we …

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Habituation and dishabituation are demonstrated for the first time in a squid (Cephalopoda:
Teuthoidea). Each squid (n= 29) was exposed briefly to a plastic model of a predator to …

Learning to anticipate future events on the basis of past experience with the consequences
of one's own behavior (operant conditioning) is a simple form of learning that humans share …