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The relationship between open-field escape responses to visual stimuli over repeated daily exposures and the frequency of ambulation, territorial marking, autogrooming, digging, and time out of the field were studied in the Mongolian gerbil, Meriones unguiculatus. Startle and escape responses declined over 6 days of repeated exposures, whereas the initially suppressed levels of competing responses increased.
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This research was done while both authors were with the Department of Psychology, University of Manitoba at Winnipeg, and was supported by a Faculty Research Grant.
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Bauer, H.R., Gray, P.H. Habituation of open-field escape responses and increase in competing responses in the Mongolian gerbil, Meriones unguiculatus . Bull. Psychon. Soc. 18, 125–128 (1981). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03333581
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