Neural correlates of leg learning in the shore crab,carcinus maenas
- 22 January 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Marine Behaviour and Physiology
- Vol. 8 (1) , 83-97
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10236248109387005
Abstract
Myograms were recorded from crabs being trained to raise their legs to avoid shocks. Shock avoidance was associated with an increase in the firing frequency of a slow tonic flexor motoneuron, whose firing frequency increased with increased carpopodite flexion. The firing frequency of this motoneuron could be directly altered by means of a computer‐controlled training procedure. When shocks were given whenever the frequency was below a predetermined threshold, significant increases in frequency were obtained compared with control animals that received the same regime of shocks as experimental crabs.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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