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Dishabituation is way of responding to old stimuli as it if were new.[1] There are two schools of thought on dishabituation: (1) that it is a process of habituation in reverse and (2) that it is sensitization of a previously habituated response to a stimulus. [2]

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  1. ↑ Boyd, D & Bee, H (2006). Lifespan Development 4th ed. London: Pearson
  2. ↑ Hawkins, R.D., Cohen, T.E., & Kandel, E.R. (2006). Dishabituation in Aplysia can involve either reversal of habituation or superimposed sensitization. Learning & Memory, 13, 397-403. Full text

Further reading[]

  • Ben-Shakhar, G., Gati, I., Ben-Bassat, N. & Sniper, G. (2000). Orienting response reinstatement and dishabituation: The effects of substituting, adding and deleting components of nonsignificant stimuli. Psychophysiology, 37, 102-110. Full text
  • Braha, O., et. al. (1990). Second Messengers Involved in the Two Processes of Presynaptic Facilitation that Contribute to Sensitization and Dishabituation in Aplysia Sensory Neurons. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 87, 2040-2044. Full text
  • Hawkins, R.D., Cohen, T.E., & Kandel, E.R. (2006). Dishabituation in Aplysia can involve either reversal of habituation or superimposed sensitization. Learning & Memory, 13, 397-403. Full text
  • Hochner, B., Klein, M., Schacher, S., & Kandel, E.R. (1986). Additional Component in the Cellular Mechanism of Presynaptic Facilitation Contributes to Behavioral Dishabituation in Aplysia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 83, 8794-8798. Full text
  • Jacklet, J.W. & Rine, J. (1977). Facilitation at Neuromuscular Junctions: Contribution to Habituation and Dishabituation of the Aplysia Gill Withdrawal Reflex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 74, 1267-1271. Full text
  • Kaplan, P.S., Goldstein, M.H., Huckeby, E.R., Owren, M.J., & Cooper, R.P. (1995). Dishabituation of visual attention by infant-versus adult-directed speech: Effects of frequency modulation and spectral composition. Infant Behavior and Development, 18, 209-223. Full text
  • Mongeluzi, D.L. & Frost, W.N. (2000). Dishabituation of the Tritonia Escape Swim. Learning & Memory, 7, 43-47. Full text
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