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The study of habituation is of great general interest, for it seems to represent the most elementary form of behavioural plasticity (Grossman 19 67). An adequate theory of this phenomenon may therefore provide a basis for increased understanding of other more complex forms of learning (Grossman 1967; Groves and Thomson 1970; Harris 1943; Thomson and Spencer 1966).
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Barrós-Pita, J.C. (1974). Massed Training and Latent Habituation of the Deimatic Response in the Mantid, Stagmatoptera Biocellata . In: Barton Browne, L. (eds) Experimental Analysis of Insect Behaviour. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-86666-1_16
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