FORMATION OF CONDITIONED REFLEX RESPONSES TO A MAGNETIC FIELD IN FISH

摘要

The question of whether magnetic fields have an effect on animals still remains open, although certain investigators have attempted to answer it affirmatively. It is commonly supposed that birds are affected by the earth's magnetic field during longdistance flights, but this has not been reliably confirmed.nWe decided to verify by the conditioned reflex method the possibility that fish may be affected by a magnetic field, on the assumption that the earth's magnetic field may play some part in the complicated procedure by which fish follow definite migratory routes. The project was begun in 1953 at the Institute of Biophysics, Academy of Sciences USSR, under the direction of G. M. Erdman and is being continued at the Chair of Physiology of Higher Nervous Activity, Moscow State University, under the direction of L. G. Vernon.