Escape and avoidance learning in the earthworm Eisenia hortensis
Interest in instrumental learning in earthworms dates back to 1912 when Yerkes concluded that they can learn a spatial discrimination in a T-maze. Rosenkoetter and Boice determined in the 1970s that the “learning” that Yerkes observed was probably chemotaxis and not learning at all. We examined a di...
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PeerJ Inc.
2014-01-01
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