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A RESPONSE that has waned as a result of continuous stimulation without reinforcement may reappear when the stimulus is presented on another occasion: habituation, as defined by Thorpe1, is “relatively permanent” but not complete. The extent of recovery of the response will clearly be a function of the length of time between presentations, but several workers, notably Hinde2,3, have shown that the relation between recovery and rest interval is not a simple one. Recovery seems to occur in at least two stages, possibly reflecting the existence of separate underlying physical processes. Some recent experiments with the cuttlefish, described here, have revealed a two-stage recovery with much sharper separation than has been found previously.
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MESSENGER, J. Two-stage Recovery of a Response in Sepia. Nature 232, 202–203 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/232202a0
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