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Learning in Spiders

Author(s) -

LOUIS LEGUELTE

Publication year - 1969

Publication title -

american zoologist

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2162-4445

pISSN - 0003-1569

DOI - 10.1093/icb/9.1.145

Subject(s) - spider , repetition (rhetorical device) , on the fly , phenomenon , position (finance) , computer science , function (biology) , ecology , biology , physics , evolutionary biology , economics , philosophy , linguistics , finance , quantum mechanics , operating system

After the spider, Zygiella x-notata Cl. has been enticed to leave the retreat and catch a fly in a web turned upside-down, it takes a relatively long time to return to the retreat. The return-time is divided into periods of active searching and motionlessness. Several factors have been found to shorten significantly the searching and motionless time; among them are youth of the animals, small number of webs previously built, the position of the web before and between experiments, and repetition of trials at certain time intervals. The observed phenomenon and variations in time are explained in terms of current concepts of memory function and information processing.

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