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A Behavioral Analysis of Habituation within Simple Invertebrate Nervous Systems
(Houghton University, 2010-05-03) Gorman, Amara A.
Lockery, Rawlins, and Gray's (1985) study indicated that (a) habituation and dishabituation were elicited in the shortening reflex of the medicinal leech by photic and electrical stimulation, and that (b) the neural mechanisms that underlie behavioral responses, parallels behaviors of the gill-withdrawal reflex in Aplysia calif arnica. However, Kristan et al. (1982) and Debski and Friesen's (1985) studies suggest that a swimming response can be elicited by electrical stimulation to the specific region of the leech. Similar to studies of Aplysia cal~rarnica, the leech demonstrates nonassociative learning, including habituation and sensitization, through a variety of behavioral responses. Thus, the present study replicated Kristan, McGirr, and Simpson's (1982) and Debski and Friesen's (1985) research, to demonstrate (a) habituation and (b) a swimming response as a result of electrical stimulation to the posterior area of the leech. As expected, a swimming response was elicited when stimulus were presented to the posterior region. However, habituation did not occur.
A Dialogue of Murdoch's Moral Philosophy and Creative Writing: Transcending Barriers of the Self to See the Other
(Houghton College, 2016-05-29) Murphy, Allyson
A floristic survey of Houghton College campus
(Houghton College, 2013-05-29) Snow, Sarah
A Survey of the Parasites of Coyotes (Canis latrans) in Western New York: Revealing High Coyote Parasite Loads & Parasites Novel to Coyotes in the Northeast US
(Houghton College, 2012-04-29) McLendon, Kathryn E.
Abraham Lincoln: Political Thought and Political Tactics
(Houghton College, 2012-04-29) Fitzsimmons, Garrett
Attitudes and perceptions : the relationship between self-objectification, self-esteem, and self-perceptions of facial attractiveness
(Houghton College, 2015-05-29) McGarity, Rebecca
Chinese Foreign Aid in Africa: An Exploratory Study
(Houghton College, 2015-04-29) Sun, Moeun
Coadjoint Orbits for the Unipotent Group of Upper Triangular Matrices
(Houghton College, 2020-04-29) Lyon, Caleb
Codon Bias of Influenza A Viruses and Their Hosts
(Houghton College, 2011-05-29) Fancher, Keli C.
Coming Out of the Attic: Representations of Women Across British and American Fiction
(Houghton College, 2019-04-29) Schilke, Anna
Community detection in dynamic social networks
(Houghton College, 2014-05-29) Aston, Nathan
Data Stream Subspace Clustering for Anomalous Network Packet Detection
(Houghton College, 2012-03-29) Miller, Zachary
Depression in refugee populations: A role for community-based mental health interventions?
(Houghton College, 2014-05-29) Miller, Jessica L.
Design and canonical role of Qoheleth
(Houghton College, 1984-05-29) Crowley, Timothy W
Determinants of Health Care Systems:Building a Better Model Using Case Studies of the United States, Norway, and Tanzania
(Houghton University, 2010-05-09) Cleland, Caitlin
Diversity in Vaccinium Oxycoccos L. and Sarracenia Purpurea L. in bogs of the northeastern United States
(Houghton College, 2015-04-29) McClatchey, Rachel Lynn
Do Allegheny Mountain Dusky Salamanders (Desmognathus ochrophaeus) Learn to Associate Non-Predatory Smooth Greensnakes (Opheodrys vernalis) with Threat?
(Houghton College, 2018-05-29) Gildemeister, Emilia Ann Rose
Effects of Digital Gaming on Higher Order Thinking: Exploring Correlations Between Digital Gaming and Reading Comprehension
(Houghton University, 2010-04-21) Fitzgerald, Emma
Electroencephalographic measures of negative priming effects on event-related potentials and reaction times
(Houghton College, 2014-05-29) McCuistion, Meghan
Emerging Reflections: A Narrative Inquiry of the Reflective Pedagogy of an Emerging Educator
(Houghton College, 2013-12-19) Wallace, Elizabeth