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Towards a New Study on Associative Learning in Human Fetuses: Fetal Associative Learning in Primates
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Kawai, Nobuyuki – Infant and Child Development, 2010
Research has revealed that fetuses can learn from events in their environment. The most convincing evidence for fetal learning is habituation to vibroacoustic stimulation (VAS) in human fetuses and classical conditioning in rat fetuses. However, these two research areas have been independent of each other. There have been few attempts at classical…
Descriptors: Classical Conditioning, Associative Learning, Habituation, Animals
Neural Events in the Reinforcement Contingency
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Silva, Maria Teresa Araujo; Goncalves, Fabio Leyser; Garcia-Mijares, Miriam – Behavior Analyst, 2007
When neural events are analyzed as stimuli and responses, functional relations among them and among overt stimuli and responses can be unveiled. The integration of neuroscience and the experimental analysis of behavior is beginning to provide empirical evidence of involvement of neural events in the three-term contingency relating discriminative…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Stimulation, Neurology, Responses
Extending In Vitro Conditioning in "Aplysia" to Analyze Operant and Classical Processes in the Same Preparation
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Brembs, Bjorn; Baxter, Douglas A.; Byrne, John H. – Learning & Memory, 2004
Operant and classical conditioning are major processes shaping behavioral responses in all animals. Although the understanding of the mechanisms of classical conditioning has expanded significantly, the understanding of the mechanisms of operant conditioning is more limited. Recent developments in "Aplysia" are helping to narrow the gap in the…
Descriptors: Operant Conditioning, Classical Conditioning, Responses, Animals
Reversal of Motor Learning in the Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex in the Absence of Visual Input
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Cohen, Marlene R.; Meissner, Geoffrey W.; Schafer, Robert J.; Raymond, Jennifer L. – Learning & Memory, 2004
Motor learning in the vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) and eyeblink conditioning use similar neural circuitry, and they may use similar cellular plasticity mechanisms. Classically conditioned eyeblink responses undergo extinction after prolonged exposure to the conditioned stimulus in the absence of the unconditioned stimulus. We investigated the…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Stimulation, Eye Movements, Motor Development
Classical Conditioning of Eyelid and Mystacial Vibrissae Responses in Conscious Mice
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Delgado-Garcia, Jose Maria; Troncoso, Julieta; Munera, Alejandro – Learning & Memory, 2004
The murine vibrissae sensorimotor system has been scrutinized as a target of motor learning through trace classical conditioning. Conditioned eyelid responses were acquired by using weak electrical whisker-pad stimulation as conditioned stimulus (CS) and strong electrical periorbital stimulation as unconditioned stimulus (US). In addition,…
Descriptors: Motor Development, Animals, Eye Movements, Responses
Olfactory Fear Conditioning Induces Field Potential Potentiation in Rat Olfactory Cortex and Amygdala
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Messaoudi, Belkacem; Granjon, Lionel; Mouly, Anne-Marie; Sevelinges, Yannick; Gervais, Remi – Learning & Memory, 2004
The widely used Pavlovian fear-conditioning paradigms used for studying the neurobiology of learning and memory have mainly used auditory cues as conditioned stimuli (CS). The present work assessed the neural network involved in olfactory fear conditioning, using olfactory bulb stimulation-induced field potential signal (EFP) as a marker of…
Descriptors: Classical Conditioning, Animals, Auditory Stimuli, Cues