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Behavioral and Brain Functions BioMed Central Review Open Access Nonassociative learning as gated neural integrator and differentiator in stimulus-response pathways 1 1,2 Chi-Sang Poon* and Daniel L Young Address: 1Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA and 2Entelos, Inc., 110 Marsh Drive, Foster City, CA 94404, USA Email: Chi-Sang Poon* - cpoon@; Daniel L Young - dlyoung@ * Corresponding author Published: 08 August 2006 Received: 31 October 2005 Accepted: 08 August 2006 Behavioral and Brain Functions 2006, 2:29 doi:10.1186/1744-9081-2-29 This article is available from: /content/2/1/29 © 2006 Poon and Young; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Nonassociative learning is a basic neuroadaptive behavior exhibited across animal phyla and sensory modalities but its role in brain intelligence is unclear. Current literature on habituation and sensitization, the classic dual process of nonassociative learning, gives highly incongruous accounts between varying experimental paradigms. Here we propose a general theory of non