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Formation of a motor food-getting conditioned reflex with two-way connection inHelix lucorum

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Conclusions

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    During a combination of tactile stimulation of the body surface ofHelix lucorum with food reinforcement a conditoned food-getting reflex is formed.

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    This reflex possesses all the properties of a true conditioned reflex: stability, ability to recover spontaneously after extinction, and specificity of response to a chosen conditioned stimulus.

  3. 3.

    The conditioned food-getting reflex inHelix lucorum is similar in its basic characteristics to conditioned reflexes in higher vertebrates in their simplest form.

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    A combination of two unconditioned stimuli leads to the formation of a two-way reflex.

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    The reversed conditioned connection is weaker than the direct and is characterized by variability, instability, and diversity in its manifestations.

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  1. Laboratory of Conditioned Reflexes, Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow

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Translated from Zhurnal Vysshei Nervnoi Deyatel'nosti, Vol. 29, No. 4, pp. 793–800, July–August, 1979.

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Maksimova, O.A. Formation of a motor food-getting conditioned reflex with two-way connection inHelix lucorum . Neurosci Behav Physiol 11, 241–246 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01184416

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