Journal article
Habituation revisited: An updated and revised description of the behavioral characteristics of habituation
Neurobiology of learning and memory, Vol.92(2), pp.135-138
2009
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2008.09.012
PMCID: PMC2754195
PMID: 18854219
Abstract
The most commonly cited descriptions of the behavioral characteristics of habituation come from two papers published almost 40 years ago [Groves, P. M., & Thompson, R. F. (1970). Habituation: A dual-process theory.\nPsychological Review,\n77, 419–450; Thompson, R. F., & Spencer, W. A. (1966). Habituation: A model phenomenon for the study of neuronal substrates of behavior.\nPsychological Review,\n73, 16–43]. In August 2007, the authors of this review, who study habituation in a wide range of species and paradigms, met to discuss their work on habituation and to revisit and refine the characteristics of habituation. This review offers a re-evaluation of the characteristics of habituation in light of these discussions. We made substantial changes to only a few of the characteristics, usually to add new information and expand upon the description rather than to substantially alter the original point. One additional characteristic, relating to long-term habituation, was added. This article thus provides a modern summary of the characteristics defining habituation, and can serve as a convenient primer for those whose research involves stimulus repetition.
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- Title: Subtitle
- Habituation revisited: An updated and revised description of the behavioral characteristics of habituation
- Creators
- Catharine H Rankin - Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver, Canada BC V6H 1B3Thomas Abrams - Department of Pharmacology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 221201-1559, USARobert J Barry - Brain & Behaviour Research Institute and School of Psychology, University of Wollongong, Wollongong 2522, AustraliaSeema Bhatnagar - Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USADavid F Clayton - Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Beckman Institute and Institute for Genome Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL 61801, USAJohn Colombo - Department of Psychology and Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USAGianluca Coppola - Department of Neurophysiology of Vision and Neuropthalmology, G.B. Bietti Eye Foundation-IRCCS, Rome, ItalyMark A Geyer - Department of Psychiatry, UCSD, La Jolla, CA 92093-0804, USADavid L Glanzman - Department of Physiological Science, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1606, USAStephen Marsland - Computer Science Group, School of Engineering and Advanced Technology, Massey University, Private Bag 11-222, Palmerston North 4442, New ZealandFrances K McSweeney - Department of Psychology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-4829, USADonald A Wilson - Department of Zoology and Neurobehavioral Institute, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USAChun-Fang Wu - Department of Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USARichard F Thompson - Department of Psychology, USC, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2520, USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Neurobiology of learning and memory, Vol.92(2), pp.135-138
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.nlm.2008.09.012
- PMID
- 18854219
- PMCID
- PMC2754195
- NLM abbreviation
- Neurobiol Learn Mem
- ISSN
- 1074-7427
- eISSN
- 1095-9564
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2009
- Academic Unit
- Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Biology
- Record Identifier
- 9984070353702771
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