Habituation — learning not to fear a harmless substance after being confronted with it on several occasions — exists in all animals, but was never observed in a non-neural organism. This discovery ...

Up until recently, habituation -- a simple form of learning -- was deemed the exclusive domain of complex organisms with brains and nervous systems, such as worms, insects, birds, and mammals. But a ...

A new paper examines the possible effects of two properties of receiver playing fields documented in studies of animal psychology -- habituation and neural adaptation -- on the efficacy of mate choice ...