Enhanced exploratory activity in woodlice exposed to random visuo-tactile patterns.
In birds and mammals, randomness is known to have excitatory effects on exploratory behavior, but this phenomenon has not extensively been studied in invertebrates. Four experiments examined the propensity of woodlice ( Porcellio scaber ) to choose between the exploration of an environment composed...
| Publicado en: | Learning & Motivation Vol. 50; pp. 48 - 59 |
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Academic Press Inc.
May2015
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