Relative ability of the newt and the terrapin to reverse a direction habit.

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Terrapins proved superior to newts in mastering a simple T-maze in which the positive side led to darkness and water. As each animal reached the criterion for learning the correct path was reversed; the reversals were made 9 times. When the total time, trials and errors are considered as measures of the flexibility or plasticity of the learning process, the terrapins are superior. The differences in learning are attributed to the presence of neopallium in the terrapin and to the dominance of the primitive olfactory cortex in the newts. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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