{"pk":5167,"title":"Retention of a Brightness Discrimination Task in Paramecia, \nP. caudatum","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Previous research into the possibility of learning in paramecia in this laboratory has shown that these organisms can learn to go to and remain in a specific location based on cathode shock reinforcement. The present experiment was designed to determine whether paramecia could retain (remember) the learned brightness discrimination task. The results indicate that the retention interval for this task in paramecia is shorter than 1 minute. It is possible that paramecia can remember this task for longer than a second but shorter than the 1-minute interval that was used during test. It is also possible that remembering for more than a few seconds requires a nervous system, which paramecia do not have.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"International Journal of Comparative Psychology"},{"word":"Behavior"},{"word":"Behaviour"},{"word":"Behavioral Taxonomy"},{"word":"learning"},{"word":"cognition"},{"word":"Cognitive Processes"},{"word":"retention"},{"word":"Brightness"},{"word":"discrimination"},{"word":"Task"},{"word":"Paramecia"}],"section":"Research Article","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5428c5xn","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Catherine","middle_name":"M.","last_name":"Mingee","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Toledo","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2013-11-03T23:12:54Z","date_accepted":"2013-11-03T23:12:54Z","date_published":"2013-08-01T07:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclapsych_ijcp/article/5167/galley/3047/download/"}]}