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Ongoing behavioural activity shows a certain resistance against interruption by a conflicting behaviour elicited by artificial electric stimuli. This resistance was measured in terms of the intensity of electric stimuli required to interrupt building of the protective tube in caddis-fly larvae(Trichoptera, Potamophylax). The results indicate, that different stages of the building behaviour have different resistance to interruption. Considerable differences have been found between two thresholds: Ttr- for triggering a defence response by electric stimuli and Toff- for switching it off. Thus the stability of ongoing behaviour manifests itself in a specific hysteresis. Stability and hysteresis are analyzed in the context of the synergetic model of behaviour.
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Filimonov, P.M., Faidysh, E.A. (1990). System Analysis of Instinctive Behaviour in Insects. In: Gribakin, F.G., Wiese, K., Popov, A.V. (eds) Sensory Systems and Communication in Arthropods. Advances in Life Sciences. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-6410-7_24
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