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Battaglia S, Nazzi C, Lonsdorf TB, Thayer JF. Neuropsychobiology of fear-induced bradycardia in humans: progress and pitfalls. Mol Psychiatry 2024:10.1038/s41380-024-02600-x. [PMID: 38862673 DOI: 10.1038/s41380-024-02600-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2023] [Revised: 04/17/2024] [Accepted: 05/07/2024] [Indexed: 06/13/2024]
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In the last century, the paradigm of fear conditioning has greatly evolved in a variety of scientific fields. The techniques, protocols, and analysis methods now most used have undergone a progressive development, theoretical and technological, improving the quality of scientific productions. Fear-induced bradycardia is among these techniques and represents the temporary deceleration of heart beats in response to negative outcomes. However, it has often been used as a secondary measure to assess defensive responding to threat, along other more popular techniques. In this review, we aim at paving the road for its employment as an additional tool in fear conditioning experiments in humans. After an overview of the studies carried out throughout the last century, we describe more recent evidence up to the most contemporary research insights. Lastly, we provide some guidelines concerning the best practices to adopt in human fear conditioning studies which aim to investigate fear-induced bradycardia.
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Affiliation(s)
- Simone Battaglia
- Center for Studies and Research in Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- Department of Psychology, University of Torino, Torino, Italy
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- Center for Studies and Research in Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Systems Neuroscience, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
- Department of Psychology, Section for Biological Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
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- Department of Psychological Science, 4201 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA.
- Department of Psychology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
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Measuring learning in human classical threat conditioning: Translational, cognitive and methodological considerations. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2020; 114:96-112. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.04.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2019] [Revised: 04/15/2020] [Accepted: 04/18/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Wickramasuriya DS, Faghih RT. A mixed filter algorithm for sympathetic arousal tracking from skin conductance and heart rate measurements in Pavlovian fear conditioning. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0231659. [PMID: 32324756 PMCID: PMC7179889 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0231659] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2019] [Accepted: 03/29/2020] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Pathological fear and anxiety disorders can have debilitating impacts on individual patients and society. The neural circuitry underlying fear learning and extinction has been known to play a crucial role in the development and maintenance of anxiety disorders. Pavlovian conditioning, where a subject learns an association between a biologically-relevant stimulus and a neutral cue, has been instrumental in guiding the development of therapies for treating anxiety disorders. To date, a number of physiological signal responses such as skin conductance, heart rate, electroencephalography and cerebral blood flow have been analyzed in Pavlovian fear conditioning experiments. However, physiological markers are often examined separately to gain insight into the neural processes underlying fear acquisition. We propose a method to track a single brain-related sympathetic arousal state from physiological signal features during fear conditioning. We develop a state-space formulation that probabilistically relates features from skin conductance and heart rate to the unobserved sympathetic arousal state. We use an expectation-maximization framework for state estimation and model parameter recovery. State estimation is performed via Bayesian filtering. We evaluate our model on simulated and experimental data acquired in a trace fear conditioning experiment. Results on simulated data show the ability of our proposed method to estimate an unobserved arousal state and recover model parameters. Results on experimental data are consistent with skin conductance measurements and provide good fits to heartbeats modeled as a binary point process. The ability to track arousal from skin conductance and heart rate within a state-space model is an important precursor to the development of wearable monitors that could aid in patient care. Anxiety and trauma-related disorders are often accompanied by a heightened sympathetic tone and the methods described herein could find clinical applications in remote monitoring for therapeutic purposes.
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- Dilranjan S. Wickramasuriya
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America
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De la Casa LG, Cárcel L, Ruiz-Salas JC, Vicente L, Mena A. Conditioned increase of locomotor activity induced by haloperidol. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0200178. [PMID: 30281607 PMCID: PMC6169844 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0200178] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2018] [Accepted: 09/14/2018] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Dopamine antagonist drugs have profound effects on locomotor activity. In particular, the administration of the D2 antagonist haloperidol produces a state that is similar to catalepsy. In order to confirm whether the modulation of the dopaminergic activity produced by haloperidol can act as an unconditioned stimulus, we carried out two experiments in which the administration of haloperidol was repeatedly paired with the presence of distinctive contextual cues that served as a Conditioned Stimulus. Paradoxically, the results revealed a dose-dependent increase in locomotor activity following conditioning with dopamine antagonist (Experiments 1) that was susceptible of extinction when the conditioned stimulus was presented repeatedly by itself after conditioning (Experiment 2). These data are interpreted from an associative perspective, considering them as a result of a classical conditioning process.
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
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Castegnetti G, Tzovara A, Staib M, Gerster S, Bach DR. Assessing fear learning via conditioned respiratory amplitude responses. Psychophysiology 2016; 54:215-223. [PMID: 27933608 PMCID: PMC6001548 DOI: 10.1111/psyp.12778] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2016] [Accepted: 09/26/2016] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Respiratory physiology is influenced by cognitive processes. It has been suggested that some cognitive states may be inferred from respiration amplitude responses (RAR) after external events. Here, we investigate whether RAR allow assessment of fear memory in cued fear conditioning, an experimental model of aversive learning. To this end, we built on a previously developed psychophysiological model (PsPM) of RAR, which regards interpolated RAR time series as the output of a linear time invariant system. We first establish that average RAR after CS+ and CS− are different. We then develop the response function of fear‐conditioned RAR, to be used in our PsPM. This PsPM is inverted to yield estimates of cognitive input into the respiratory system. We analyze five validation experiments involving fear acquisition and retention, delay and trace conditioning, short and medium CS‐US intervals, and data acquired with bellows and MRI‐compatible pressure chest belts. In all experiments, CS+ and CS− are distinguished by their estimated cognitive inputs, and the sensitivity of this distinction is higher for model‐based estimates than for peak scoring of RAR. Comparing these data with skin conductance responses (SCR) and heart period responses (HPR), we find that, on average, RAR performs similar to SCR in distinguishing CS+ and CS−, but is less sensitive than HPR. Overall, our work provides a novel and robust tool to investigate fear memory in humans that may allow wide and straightforward application to diverse experimental contexts.
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- Giuseppe Castegnetti
- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.,Neuroscience Centre Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.,Neuroscience Centre Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.,Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.,Neuroscience Centre Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.,Neuroscience Centre Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.,Neuroscience Centre Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.,Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London, London, UK
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Castegnetti G, Tzovara A, Staib M, Paulus PC, Hofer N, Bach DR. Modeling fear-conditioned bradycardia in humans. Psychophysiology 2016; 53:930-9. [PMID: 26950648 PMCID: PMC4869680 DOI: 10.1111/psyp.12637] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2015] [Accepted: 02/04/2016] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Across species, cued fear conditioning is a common experimental paradigm to investigate aversive Pavlovian learning. While fear‐conditioned stimuli (CS+) elicit overt behavior in many mammals, this is not the case in humans. Typically, autonomic nervous system activity is used to quantify fear memory in humans, measured by skin conductance responses (SCR). Here, we investigate whether heart period responses (HPR) evoked by the CS, often observed in humans and small mammals, are suitable to complement SCR as an index of fear memory in humans. We analyze four datasets involving delay and trace conditioning, in which heart beats are identified via electrocardiogram or pulse oximetry, to show that fear‐conditioned heart rate deceleration (bradycardia) is elicited and robustly distinguishes CS+ from CS−. We then develop a psychophysiological model (PsPM) of fear‐conditioned HPR. This PsPM is inverted to yield estimates of autonomic input into the heart. We show that the sensitivity to distinguish CS+ and CS− (predictive validity) is higher for model‐based estimates than peak‐scoring analysis, and compare this with SCR. Our work provides a novel tool to investigate fear memory in humans that allows direct comparison between species.
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- Giuseppe Castegnetti
- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.,Neuroscience Centre Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.,Neuroscience Centre Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.,Neuroscience Centre Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.,Neuroscience Centre Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.,Department of Psychology, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.,Neuroscience Centre Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.,Neuroscience Centre Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.,Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London, London, UK
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Human Pavlovian autonomie conditioning and its relation to awareness of the CS/US contingency: Focus on the phenomenon and some forgotten facts. Behav Brain Sci 2011. [DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x00082170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Explaining classical conditioning: Phenomenological unity conceals mechanistic diversity. Behav Brain Sci 2010. [DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x00024638] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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AbstractConverging data from different disciplines are showing the role of classical conditioning processes in the elaboration of human and animal behavior to be larger than previously supposed. Restricted views of classically conditioned responses as merely secretory, reflexive, or emotional are giving way to a broader conception that includes problem-solving, and other rule-governed behavior thought to be the exclusive province of either operant conditiońing or cognitive psychology. These new views have been accompanied by changes in the way conditioning is conducted and evaluated. Data from a number of seemingly unrelated phenomena such as relapse to drug abuse by postaddicts, the placebo effect, and the immune response appear to involve classical conditioning processes. Classical conditioning, moreover, has been found to occur in simpler and simpler organisms and recently even demonstrated in brain slices and in utero. This target article will integrate the several research areas that have used the classical conditioning process as an explanatory model; it will challenge teleological interpretations of the classically conditioned CR and offer some basic principles for testing conditioning in diverse areas.
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Flights of teleological fancy about classical conditioning do not produce valid science or useful technology. Behav Brain Sci 2010. [DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x0002464x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Conditioning of sexual and reproductive behavior: Extending the hegemony to the propagation of species. Behav Brain Sci 2010. [DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x00024602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Hurwitz BE, Quillian RE, Marks JB, Schneiderman N, Agramonte RF, Freeman CR, La Greca AM, Skyler JS. Resting parasympathetic status and cardiovascular response to orthostatic and behavioral challenges in type I insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. Int J Behav Med 2006; 1:137-62. [PMID: 16250810 DOI: 10.1207/s15327558ijbm0102_3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022]
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- B E Hurwitz
- Behavioral Medicine Research Center, Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124, USA
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Furedy JJ. Pavlov's methodological behaviorism as a pre-Socratic contribution of the melding of the differential and experimental psychology. THE SPANISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY 2003; 6:133-46. [PMID: 14628700 DOI: 10.1017/s113874160000528x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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The differential/experimental distinction that Cronbach specified is important because any adequate account of psychological phenomena requires the recognition of the validity of both approaches, and a meaningful melding of the two. This paper suggests that Pavlov's work in psychology, based on earlier traditions of inquiry that can be traced back to the pre-Socratics, provides a potential way of achieving this melding, although such features as systematic rather than anecdotal methods of observation need to be added. Pavlov's methodological behaviorist approach is contrasted with metaphysical behaviorism (as exemplified explicitly in Watson and Skinner, and implicitly in the computer-metaphorical, information-processing explanations employed by current "cognitive" psychology). A common feature of the metaphysical approach is that individual-differences variables like sex are essentially ignored, or relegated to ideological categories such as the treatment of sex as merely a "social construction." Examples of research both before and after the "cognitive revolution" are presented where experimental and differential methods are melded, and individual differences are treated as phenomena worthy of investigation rather than as nuisance factors that merely add to experimental error.
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- John J Furedy
- Dept. of Psychology, 100 George Street, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3G3, Canada.
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Furedy JJ, Damke B, Boucsein W. Revisiting the learning-without-awareness question in human Pavlovian autonomic conditioning: focus on extinction in a dichotic listening paradigm. INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE : THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE PAVLOVIAN SOCIETY 2000; 35:17-34. [PMID: 10885545 DOI: 10.1007/bf02911164] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Numerous studies have indicated that, consistent with current "cognitive" accounts of information processing, human Pavlovian autonomic discrimination acquisition cannot occur without awareness of the CS-US relationship. However, extinction studies have suggested that awareness is not necessary, findings that, in information-processing terms, have been explained by assuming that the processing by the extinction stage is parallel (automatic) rather than serial (controlled). This explanation was tested in an 80-subject study. The first, acquisition phase was a standard semantic differential conditioning arrangement with a 96-db white noise as US, and a "long" CS-US interval of 8 s, with ten trials each of CS+ (paired with US) and CS- (unpaired) trials. In extinction (USs omitted), in order to obtain non-autonomic indices of processing and thereby test the information-processing account of "unaware" autonomic conditioning during extinction, a dichotic listening task was implemented, with the CSs presented in the unattended channel (ear), while the subject had to perform a semantic differential reaction task in an attended-to channel (other ear). In early extinction, the electrodermal response occurring at an interval of 9-15 s after CS onset (i.e., following placement of the US during acquisition) and the finger-pulse-volume response occurring at an interval of 4-11 s after CS onset both showed reliable conditioning, but reaction-time and subjective-report data for the recognized critical words indicated serial rather than parallel processing of the CSs during extinction.
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- J J Furedy
- Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Implicit learning from a computer-science perspective. Behav Brain Sci 1996. [DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x00082182] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Rau H, Furedy JJ, Elbert T. PRES- and orthostatic-induced heart-rate changes as markers of labile hypertension: magnitude and reliability measures. Biol Psychol 1996; 42:105-15. [PMID: 8770373 DOI: 10.1016/0301-0511(95)05149-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Split-half and test-retest reliabilities of heart-rate responses to a baroreceptor manipulation and an orthostatic maneuver were compared between subjects with either normal or elevated blood-pressure. Ten subjects showing elevated resting blood-pressure and II normotensive subjects participated in two experimental sessions, each including heart-rate recordings during baroreceptor manipulation and orthostatic challenge. Carotid baroreceptors were manipulated by applying the baroreceptor-specific phase-related external suction (PRES) technique. The orthostatic stimulation procedure (OSP) was a change of body position from lying to standing. Heart rate responses evoked by OSP failed to discriminate significantly between the groups either in the magnitude or the (test, retest) reliability measure. The PRES procedure also failed to discriminate with the conventional magnitude measure, but the reliability measures showed significant differences. Paradoxically, the high-blood-pressure group manifested the higher baroreceptor reliability. The present findings are consistent with the view that operant conditioning produces phasic blood-pressure increases. In this view, blood-pressure increases activate the arterial baroreceptors which, in turn, dampen pain and/or stress sensitivity. Individuals showing high consistency (reliability) in their cardiovascular responses are more likely to learn this form of conditioning, and hence to eventually increase their tonic blood-pressure. High reliability of cardiovascular responses may therefore constitute a risk for hypertension. Aside from such theoretical considerations, the findings indicate that less conventional dependent variables like reliability may be worth exploring in the search for the etiology of essential hypertension, and that, in this search, specificity (relative to baroreceptor function) is more important than the magnitude of the heart-rate changes that are produced.
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- H Rau
- Department of Medical Psychology, University of Tübingen, Germany.
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Rau H, Brody S, Larbig W, Pauli P, Vöhringer M, Harsch B, Kröling P, Birbaumer N. Effects of PRES baroreceptor stimulation on thermal and mechanical pain threshold in borderline hypertensives and normotensives. Psychophysiology 1994; 31:480-5. [PMID: 7972602 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.1994.tb01051.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Prior studies have noted a pain relieving effect of baroreceptor stimulation and of higher tonic blood pressure in animals and humans. The present study used a new technique for the controlled, noninvasive stimulation of human carotid baroreceptors (PRES). PRES baroreceptor manipulation was delivered to both normotensive subjects (n = 11) and medication-free labile hypertensive subjects (n = 10) during both thermal and mechanical pain. Consistent with prior research, hypertensives had a higher threshold for thermal pain than did normotensives. PRES baroreceptor manipulation had no significant effect on thermal pain threshold for either group. For the mechanical pain model, the opposite results were obtained; group pain thresholds did not differ, but there was a significant PRES baroreceptor stimulation effect of increasing pain threshold for both groups. Results are discussed in terms of specific features of the stimuli, dampening of pain in hypertensives, and adaptation to pain.
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- H Rau
- Eberhard-Karls University, Tübingen, Germany
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Tarpy RM, Scharer JB. Ivanov-Smolensky conditioning: relationship between CR and UR form and intensity. Biol Psychol 1994; 37:247-58. [PMID: 7948469 DOI: 10.1016/0301-0511(94)90006-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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The Ivanov-Smolensky conditioning procedure involves a CS followed by a command (US). There are two URs--an instructed UR and a reflexive UR such as an autonomic reaction. Anticipatory responses during the CS, of either the instructed or reflexive UR, provide a measure of conditioning. We examined whether the reflexive CR and UR are similar in form, and whether larger reflexive CRs and URs are associated with larger instructed URs. Subjects were asked to exhale "quickly and powerfully" (exhalation was thus the instructed UR) either following (Forward) or prior to (Backward) a light CS; a change in heart rate to the CS (reflexive CR) alone was the index of conditioning. The heart rate CR and UR were both deceleratory in nature, although the onset of the CR was faster than the UR. In addition, Backward-conditioned subjects demonstrated some degree of inhibitory control by the CS. Finally, the CR intensity was inversely related to exhalation magnitude.
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- R M Tarpy
- Department of Psychology, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA 17837
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Roberts LE, Rau H, Furedy JJ, Birbaumer N. Does activation of the baroreceptors reinforce differential Pavlovian conditioning of heart rate responses? Psychophysiology 1993; 30:531-6. [PMID: 8416080 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.1993.tb02077.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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High- and low-pitched tones (CS+ and CS-) signalled baroreceptor stimulation or inhibition (US+ and US-) on 6-s conditioning trials (n = 128). Baroreceptor stimulation was induced by the phase-related external suction (PRES) method of Rau et al. (1992) in which a brief pulse of negative external pressure is applied to the neck at systole and one of positive pressure at diastole within each cardiac cycle (the reverse sequence is used for baroreceptor inhibition). Changes in heart period (R-R intervals) confirmed that PRES manipulated the baroreceptors in the presence of CS+ and CS- without habituation over conditioning trials. However, conditioned heart period responses were not observed on test trials (n = 32) in which CS+ and CS- were presented with the baroreceptor manipulation removed. Subjects were unable to state which CS had signalled baroreceptor stimulation and inhibition when given PRES-alone trials after the conditioning phase (differential attention thus controlled). These results (a) confirm that the differential effect of the two PRES stimuli was specific to the baroreceptors and (b) support earlier studies that have found that differential conditioning is impaired when CS-US relations are not processed in attention. We discuss implications regarding when baroreceptor firing might be discriminable and reinforcing.
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- L E Roberts
- Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Rau H, Brody S, Droste C, Kardos A. Blood pressure changes validate phase related external suction, a controlled method for stimulation of human baroreceptors. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY AND OCCUPATIONAL PHYSIOLOGY 1993; 67:26-9. [PMID: 8375360 DOI: 10.1007/bf00377699] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Phase related external suction (PRES), a new controlled method for manipulating activity in human baroreceptors, applies precisely timed bursts of suction and pressure within the cardiac cycle through an external neck cuff. Seven healthy adult men participated in 32 pseudo-random trials of baroreceptor stimulation and inhibition. Blood pressure was assessed both intra-arterially and with a noninvasive device. In the present study, PRES baroreceptor stimulation elicited invasively measured blood pressure decreases of about 2.5 mmHg (0.33 kPa) and heart rate decreases of about 5 beats,min-1, while baroreceptor inhibition increased invasively measured blood pressure by about 1.5 mmHg (0.20 kPa) and heart rate about 2.5 beats.min-1. It was concluded that PRES is an effective method for baroreceptor manipulation with weaker size effect but better control of nonspecific factors in human subjects than other baroreceptor manipulation techniques. The noninvasive blood pressure measurement device was less sensitive to experimental variation than was the invasive device.
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- H Rau
- Clinical and Physiological Psychology, Eberhard-Karls University, Tübingen, Germany
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Furedy JJ, Rau H, Roberts LE. Physiological and psychological differentiation of bidirectional baroreceptor carotid manipulation in humans. Physiol Behav 1992; 52:953-8. [PMID: 1484852 DOI: 10.1016/0031-9384(92)90376-d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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We investigated a phase-related-external-suction (PRES) method of bidirectional carotid stimulation which, unlike other methods, is not readily discriminable for direction (excitation vs. inhibition). Thirty-two subjects were first given 128 6-s PRES trials (64 each excitatory and inhibitory) which were signaled by two tones of differing frequency. There followed a 20-trial discrimination phase where subjects' task was to identify excitatory and inhibitory PRES trials (randomly presented) in terms of the two tone signals. Physiological (HR) discrimination was bidirectional (deceleration and acceleration for excitatory and inhibitory PRES trials, respectively), reflex-like (no habituation), but asymmetrical in magnitude (larger decelerations than accelerations), and topography (e.g., presence of a short latency deceleration). Group psychological discrimination was absent, although two subjects had a 100% hit rate on the discrimination test. There were, however, no systematic HR changes associated with these two subjects. Finally, the small-magnitude (2-3 bpm) physiological HR reflex was markedly augmented by what appeared to be a psychological, attentional factor. Accordingly, while the results indicated a dissociation between physiological and psychological differentiation, there was also evidence of a psychological factor (attention) influencing a physiologically induced reflex.
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- J J Furedy
- Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Furedy JJ. Reflections on human Pavlovian decelerative heart-rate conditioning with negative tilt as US: alternative approaches. INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE : THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE PAVLOVIAN SOCIETY 1992; 27:347-55. [PMID: 1286037 DOI: 10.1007/bf02691169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The negative-tilt preparation that has been reported since the late seventies is a specific form of Pavlovian conditioning that is of scientific interest and has potential applications. In this paper I reflect on the usefulness, to the development of this preparation, of two approaches to Pavlovian conditioning. One approach is the older S-R learning, stimulus-substitution paradigm exemplified by learning texts of the sixties. The other is the modern, Tolman-like view, according to which the phenomenon of Pavlovian conditioning is "now described as the learning of relations among events so as to allow the organism to represent its environment." The three assumptions encapsulated by this approach are: (a) that only CS-US contingency relations are learned; (b) that teleological modes of explanations are adequate; (c) that the representational theory of knowledge is sound. Concerning Pavlovian conditioning in general, questions been raised in the literature for all three assumptions; they have not been adequately answered. Regarding the specific problem of developing the human Pavlovian heart-rate decelerative conditioning with negative tilt as the US, I suggest that the cognitive approach has been much less helpful than the older, S-R, stimulus-substitution paradigm. Nevertheless, other literature clearly indicates that the cognitive, S-S approach has generated considerable interest and research, especially in preparations like the conditioned emotional response (CER), which are CS-IR ones in the sense that the effects on the CR are assessed indirectly through measuring an indicator or instrumental response (IR).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- J J Furedy
- Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Furedy JJ. Some recalcitrant views on the role of noncognitive S-R factors in human Pavlovian autonomic conditioning. Some facts still haunt us. INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE : THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE PAVLOVIAN SOCIETY 1991; 26:21-5. [PMID: 2054293 DOI: 10.1007/bf02690974] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Either implicitly or explicity, most workers in the last two decades have adopted the (imperialistic) view that conditioning is simply the learning of (cognitive) S-S relationships, and that (noncognitive) S-R factors are irrelevant. I shall remind us of some contrary evidence from human Pavlovian autonomic conditioning (HPAC), consideration of which may spoil our neat cognitive picture (representation?) of the world, but may also lead both to a better understanding of the conditioning phenomenon and to more genuinely useful applications of conditioning principles to behavioral (including psychophysiological) problems.
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- J J Furedy
- Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Pavlovian conditioning: Providing a bridge between cognition and biology. Behav Brain Sci 1989. [DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x00024742] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Furedy JJ, Shulhan D, Randall DC. Human Pavlovian HR decelerative conditioning with negative tilt as US: a review of some S-R, stimulus-substitution evidence. Int J Psychophysiol 1989; 7:19-23. [PMID: 2647686 DOI: 10.1016/0167-8760(89)90027-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Interest in human Pavlovian heart rate (HR) conditioning with conventional shock and loud noise unconditional stimuli has declined, as measured by reports in the literature. Accompanying this decline have been the following views: (a) that HR should be abandoned as a psychophysiological index of the psychological (learning) process of Pavlovian conditioning; (b) that, following psychology's shift to a more cognitive emphasis, the self-regulation (S-R), stimulus-substitution view of pavlovian conditioning is wrong, because there is no equivalence in direction between shock- and loud noise-induced HR-accelerative unconditional response and the conditional response. This paper reviews recent reports of human Pavlovian conditioning of HR deceleration with negative tilt as the unconditional stimulus. The results support an S-R, stimulus-substitution interpretation of conditioning. In addition, these studies have potential therapeutic application in the teaching of (medically desirable) HR deceleration, especially when Pavlovian procedures are combined with instrumental (biofeedback) ones. However, such physiological aspects of the decelerative unconditioned response as the degree of vagal involvement are difficult to investigate in the human preparation.
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- J J Furedy
- Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Ont. Canada
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Furedy JJ, Randall DC, Fitzovich DE, Shulhan D. Human Pavlovian HR-decelerative conditioning with negative tilt as US: evidence of vagal and sympathetic influences on the UR in dogs. Int J Psychophysiol 1989; 7:25-33. [PMID: 2925462 DOI: 10.1016/0167-8760(89)90028-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Following a review of studies employing negative tilt in human Pavlovian conditioning of heart rate (HR) deceleration (Furedy et al, in press), this paper reports data based on animal subjects on such physiological aspects of the decelerative unconditioned response (UR) as the degree of vagal involvement. Five anesthetized dogs underwent 90 degrees negative body tilts pre- and postbilateral vagotomy, while interbeat interval (IBI), left ventricular pressure (LVP) and its first derivative, d(LVP)/dt, which is a measure of sympathetic cardiac drive, were recorded. Consistent with the vagal interpretation of the tilt-induced decelerative UR, the results indicated that vagotomy markedly changed the tilt-induced bradycardic reflex from a fast-recruiting, large-magnitude (over 45%), and sustained (throughout the 20-27-s tilt) IBI increase, to slower-recruiting, and markedly smaller (less than 5%) IBI increase. However, there was also evidence of an initial sympathetic excitation of about 5 s, as indicated by a 45% increase in d(LVP)/dt, which returned to baseline level by 9 s following tilt onset. Vagotomy increased this tilt-induced sympathetic excitation to about 100%, and it remained at above 70% throughout the tilt. Prevagotomy LVP showed a slight (about 10%) and delayed (about 6 s following tilt onset) depressor response, which was eliminated by vagotomy. Finally, unaveraged data from individual dogs suggested that prevagotomy, LVP changes preceded IBI changes. Regarding implications of these results for human HR deceleration-inducing preparations, we conclude that the different physiological mechanisms that accompany and/or produce a given change in HR need continuing investigation with multiple dependent physiological variables (which are assessed for topographical differences), and in both human and animal preparations.
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- J J Furedy
- Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Ont., Canada
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Cerebro-cerebellar learning loops and language skills. Behav Brain Sci 1989. [DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x00024808] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Mis(sed)-representations. Behav Brain Sci 1989. [DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x0002481x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Response utility in classical and operant conditioning. Behav Brain Sci 1989. [DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x00024626] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Classical conditioning beyond the laboratory. Behav Brain Sci 1989. [DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x00024754] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Associative theory versus classical conditioning: Their proper relationship. Behav Brain Sci 1989. [DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x00024699] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Classical conditioning: The role of interdisciplinary theory. Behav Brain Sci 1989. [DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x00024663] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Classical conditioning: A parsimonious analysis? Behav Brain Sci 1989. [DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x00024821] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Extending the “new hegemony” of classical conditioning. Behav Brain Sci 1989. [DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x00024766] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Preparatory response hypotheses: A muddle of causal and functional analyses. Behav Brain Sci 1989. [DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x00024675] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Brain mechanisms in classical conditioning. Behav Brain Sci 1989. [DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x00024584] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Classical conditioning: A manifestation of Bayesian neural learning. Behav Brain Sci 1989. [DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x00024857] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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The conditioned response: More than a knee-jerk in the ontogeny of behavior. Behav Brain Sci 1989. [DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x00024845] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Classical conditioning and language: The old hegemony. Behav Brain Sci 1989. [DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x00024833] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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The importance of classical conditioning. Behav Brain Sci 1989. [DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x00024717] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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