Adelman Barry E
The Arc of Indian River County, 1375 16th Avenue, Vero Beach, FL 32960 USA.
Perspect Behav Sci. 2018 Oct 2;41(2):431-446. doi: 10.1007/s40614-018-0173-6. eCollection 2018 Nov.
Despite considerable research on the responses of plants to stimuli and a recent surge of interest in "plant intelligence," few studies have been conducted on classical or respondent conditioning in plants. Studies of respondent conditioning in plants were reviewed, the majority of which used the sensitive plant () as the subjects with seismonastic responses (leaflet-folding and leaf-drooping) as the unconditioned responses, and all of which used group designs. The reported results are mixed, with no replications of positive results. Issues have been noted with the methodology of these studies, including the lack of within-subject demonstrations, choice of putative conditioned stimuli, and potential unplanned interactions between subjects across experimental groups. Recommendations are made for addressing these issues in future research.
尽管对植物对刺激的反应进行了大量研究，且最近人们对“植物智能”的兴趣激增，但对植物经典条件作用或反应性条件作用的研究却很少。对植物反应性条件作用的研究进行了综述，其中大多数研究以含羞草作为研究对象，以感震性反应（小叶折叠和叶片下垂）作为无条件反应，并且所有研究都采用了组间设计。报道的结果不一，且没有对阳性结果进行重复验证。这些研究的方法存在一些问题，包括缺乏个体内的证据、假定条件刺激的选择以及实验组间个体之间潜在的非计划相互作用。针对未来研究中解决这些问题提出了建议。
