Developmental Analysis in Aplysia Reveals Inhibitory as Well as Facilitatory Effects of Tail Shock
Recent studies that were performed to examine the development of learning in the siphon withdrawal reflex in Aplysia have shown that habituation, dishabituation, and sensitization emerge according to different developmental timetables. In the course of those studies, an inhibitory process triggered by tail shock was also described. In this study we examined some of the features of this inhibitory process in young juvenile animals (stage 11 and early stage 12) which developmentally lack sensitization