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CERTAIN changes in the sensory input of an animal are immediately followed by a reaction from that animal which is the same for a variety of different changes. This orientation reaction was first described by Pavlov1, who referred to observable changes in posture such as turning the head to look or listen in a particular direction. Many other changes within the animal have been found to coincide with such movements and are therefore considered to be part of the orientation reaction2. Lynn3 has summarized the various components of the reaction which have been measured.
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Pavlov, I. P., Lectures on the Work of the Cerebral Hemispheres, No. 2 in Selected Works (edit. by Koshtoyants, Kh. S.), 199 (Moscow, 1924).
Sokolov, E. N., in Central Nervous System and Behaviour (edit. by Brazier, M. A.) (New York, 1960).
Lynn, R., Attention, Arousal, and the Orientation Reaction (Pergamon, 1966).
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Broom, D. M., Ph.D. thesis, Univ. Cambridge (1967).
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BROOM, D. Specific Habituation by Chicks. Nature 217, 880–881 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/217880a0
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