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COCKROACHES (Periplaneta americana) can be mounted in such a way that when one animal places its metathoracic leg in a solution, it gets a shock at the rate of one per second. A second, control, animal gets a shock each time that the experimental animal is shocked regardless of the position of the metathoracic leg of the control animal. The experimental animal learns within 35 min to keep its leg out of the solution whereas the control animal does not learn to raise its leg, even though both animals received the same number of shocks1–4.
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KERKUT, G., OLIVER, G., RICK, J. et al. Biochemical Changes during Learning in an Insect Ganglion. Nature 227, 722–723 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/227722a0
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