Rosa Martinez-Corral

Nov 19, 2024 | cell.com | Universitat Pompeu Fabra |Rosa Martinez-Corral |Jeremy Gunawardena

IntroductionHabituation is considered to be one of the simplest and most universal forms of learning.1 It is “non-associative” in requiring only a single stimulus, which elicits, upon repetitive presentation, a steadily declining response that reaches a plateau (Figure 1A). Such a change in response to the same stimulus is sometimes offered as an informal, lowest common denominator definition of learning.