[Early experience and the development of reflex mechanisms of behavior in rabbits and children].
Studies have been made on the possibility of influence of some external stimuli on the development of the inborn reflexes which maturate in postnatal life (knee jerk and plantar reflexes in infants, cleaning reflexes in rabbits). It was shown that external stimuli experienced by the organism in early ontogenesis may affect the development of immature inborn elements of behaviour. Repetitive evoking of the developing reflex increases the rate of formation of its definitive pattern. Elaboration of the conditioned reflex on the basis of such developing inborn one, on the contrary, leads to retardation of the latter. Early handling and repetitive placing the animal into experimental camera affect the development of total cleaning behaviour of rabbits.
D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal / Q000502:physiology*; D002657:Child Development / Q000502:physiology*; D003213:Conditioning, Psychological / Q000502:physiology; D006120:Grooming; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D011817:Rabbits; D012018:Reflex; D012026:Reflex, Stretch
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