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It is possible to account for many aspects of habituation without postulating an active gating process (such as proposed by Sokolov), but by supposing that the gradual waning of the response of a group of neurones to a repeated stimulus is caused by a self-generated depression of sensitivity at one or more places in the group.
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HORN, G. Neuronal Mechanisms of Habituation. Nature 215, 707–711 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/215707a0
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