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Science 9 October 1964:
Vol. 146. no. 3641, pp. 274 - 275
DOI: 10.1126/science.146.3641.274
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Planaria: Memory Transfer through Cannibalism Reexamined

Arlene L. Hartry 1, Patricia Keith-Lee 1, and William D. Morton 2

1 Psychology Department, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California
2 Psychology Department, Occidental College, Los Angeles 41, California

Planaria which have cannibalized untrained planaria exposed to photic stimuli only, handling only, or previous conditioning, all require significantly fewer trials in a conditioning situation than naive planaria.


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