Thompson & Spencer (1966)

Habituation: A model phenomenon for the study of neuronal substrates of behavior.

Psychological Review, 73(1), 16-43

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Thompson, R. F., & Spencer, W. A. (1966). Habituation: A model phenomenon for the study of neuronal substrates of behavior. Psychological Review, 73(1), 16-43. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0022681

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Non-Associative Learning Memory Systems

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What separates habituation from simple fatigue or adaptation is that the decrement is stimulus-specific, recovers with rest (spontaneous recovery), and is reversed when a different stimulus is presented (dishabituation), criteria first set out as parametric characteristics in the 1960s