title: [Is it possible to train Achatina fulica using visual stimulation?].
abstract: The conditioned behavior to visual stimuli was obtained in Achatina fulica mollusk on the basis of its negative phototaxis. Directional moving of snails toward black cards was accompanied by the negative unconditioned stimulation (electric current). Learning was expressed in a statistically significant decrease in locomotor activity of animals and decrease in the rate of preference of sections with black cards. Learning developed within two daily training sessions with 30 trials in each of them. Learning traces were observed as defensive behavior at least during a month after reinforcement elimination.
authors.affiliation: Department of Bioecology, Kaliningrad State University, Kaliningrad.
authors.forename: I B
authors.initials: IB
authors.lastname: Baĭkova
authors.forename: V V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Zhukov
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D007858:Learning; D008974:Mollusca / Q000502:physiology*; D009043:Motor Activity; D010775:Photic Stimulation
vernacular_title: Mozhno li obuchat' Achatina fulica, primeniaia zritel'nuiu stimuliatsiiu?