Armus Harvard L, Montgomery Amber R, Gurney Rebecca L
Department of Psychology, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606, USA.
Psychol Rep. 2006 Jun;98(3):705-11. doi: 10.2466/pr0.98.3.705-711.
Prior attempts to condition a one-celled organism, paramecium, by either classical or instrumental procedures have yielded both positive and negative results. As the results of those studies may be subject to several interpretations other than one indicating learning, it was decided to use a more traditional technique for the present study. This experiment was designed to assess whether aversive electric shock could be used to train paramecia on a brightness discrimination task, a procedure that has been used in animal learning research. The results indicated that such learning may have occurred.
此前尝试通过经典条件作用或操作性条件作用程序对单细胞生物草履虫进行训练，结果有正有负。由于这些研究结果可能有多种解释，而非仅表明学习，因此决定在本研究中采用更传统的技术。本实验旨在评估厌恶电击是否可用于训练草履虫完成亮度辨别任务，这是一种在动物学习研究中使用过的程序。结果表明这种学习可能已经发生。
