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A learning process in the praying mantis

Physiology & Behavior, 1972
Abstract Adult female mantids ( Stagmatoptera biocellata ) were shown a star or a fly, but prevented from catching it. After several frustrated attacks there was a clear-cut decrease of the mantis' response. The fade-out became apparent through two manifestations, i.e.
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Psychological Pain in the Praying Mantis

Proceedings of the West Virginia Academy of Science, 2017
Psychological pain is an emotional response that results from the loss of an expected reward. Previous work studying reward downshifts with rats and other mammals has shown that there are many parallels between psychological pain and physical pain, including shared brain areas and common neurotransmitter systems. Demonstrations of psychological pain in
Brianna Caison, Alan M Daniel
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Vertical disparity and binocular vision in the praying mantis

Visual Neuroscience, 1992
AbstractWe have investigated how the binocular control of prey capture in the praying mantis is affected by abnormally large vertical disparities, which were introduced by prisms placed in front of the eyes. The position of a target on the two retinae determines both the magnitude of head saccades made to fixate a target and its perceived distance ...
S, Rossel, U, Mathis, T, Collett
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The Cyclopean Ear: A New Sense for the Praying Mantis

Science, 1986
The praying mantis, thought to be deaf, possesses a sensitive and specialized acoustic sense. Neural recordings show that the auditory system responds primarily to ultrasound between 25 and 45 kilohertz with thresholds of 55 to 60 decibels. Other insects with auditory tympana possess paired, laterally placed ears; the mantis has only a single ear that ...
D D, Yager, R R, Hoy
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The Praying Mantis in Surrealist Art

The Art Bulletin, 1973
The praying mantis became a central iconographic preoccupation for the Surrealists and their circle primarily as a result of its extraordinary mating ritual in which the female devours the male during or after coitus (Fig. i).1 Influenced by the writings of Freud and fascinated by his concept of man's repressed sexuality, the Surrealists found this ...
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A chemical correlate of learning in a praying mantis

Journal of Insect Physiology, 1979
Bidimensional and unidimensional maps of amine-containing components extracted from brains of the praying mantis (Stagmatoptera biocellata) were obtained using high-voltage electrophoresis and chromatography, and high-voltage electrophoresis alone. Bidimensional maps from control insects, i.e.
Klaus Jaffé, Héctor Maldonado
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Feeding Behaviour of the Praying Mantis: A Learned Modification

Nature, 1968
THE feeding behaviour of the praying mantis typically consists of a period of visual search, a slow approach to the prey, capture by an extremely rapid grasping movement of the raptorial prothoracic legs and ingestion of the captured food1,2. The stimulus releasing the strike is visual and is maximal when the prey moves within reach of the forelegs and
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Surrealism's Praying Mantis and Castrating Woman

Woman's Art Journal, 2000
preying insects (Orthopteran), relatives of the grasshopper, cricket, and locust.1 The word "mantis" is derived from Greek and means soothsayer, diviner, or magician ordained with spiritual qualities. The scientific term Mantis religiosa is La Mante religieuse or Prie Dieux in French, Gottesanbeterin in German, and Praying Mantis in English.
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Foveal fixation and tracking in the praying mantis

Journal of Comparative Physiology ? A, 1980
1. Visually guided head and body movements of restrained and freely moving mantids (Tenodera australasiae) have been studied by means of closed circuit television. Interest was concentrated on the different roles of the fovea and the periphery of the eye in controlling visuo-motor behaviour. 2.
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A fovea in the praying mantis eye

Zeitschrift f�r Vergleichende Physiologie, 1970
J. C. Barr�s-Pita, H. Maldonado
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