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@article{citeulike:1576950, abstract = {Three experiments employed aversive or positive subcortical electrical stimulation in an unconditional stimulus (US) role in rabbit eyelid conditioning. Conditional response (CR) development to a tonal conditional stimulus (CS) was examined when the intracranial stimulation was combined with a conventional cheek-shock US (Experiment 1) or with a lightflash US (Experiment 2). Our findings were consistent with previus observations that the affective impact of the US is important in the development of an overt motor CR. The complex pattern of our results, however, implies that intracranial stimulation has multiple effects on conditioning and argues against any unidimensional interpretation of these outcomes. Our analysis of CR-contingent intracranial stimulation presentation in Experiment 3 indicated that such stimulation does not act as a Thorndikian reward or punishment in rabbit eyelid conditioning.}, author = {Frey, P. W. and Maisiak, R. and Dugue, G.}, citeulike-article-id = {1576950}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1271016}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=1271016}, issn = {0097-7403}, journal = {J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process}, keywords = {aversive, conditioning, eyeblink, iccs, ucs}, month = {April}, number = {2}, pages = {175--190}, posted-at = {2007-08-20 21:23:50}, priority = {2}, title = {Unconditional stimulus characteristics in rabbit eyelid conditioning.}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1271016}, volume = {2}, year = {1976} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1576950 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1576950 N2 - Three experiments employed aversive or positive subcortical electrical stimulation in an unconditional stimulus (US) role in rabbit eyelid conditioning. Conditional response (CR) development to a tonal conditional stimulus (CS) was examined when the intracranial stimulation was combined with a conventional cheek-shock US (Experiment 1) or with a lightflash US (Experiment 2). Our findings were consistent with previus observations that the affective impact of the US is important in the development of an overt motor CR. The complex pattern of our results, however, implies that intracranial stimulation has multiple effects on conditioning and argues against any unidimensional interpretation of these outcomes. Our analysis of CR-contingent intracranial stimulation presentation in Experiment 3 indicated that such stimulation does not act as a Thorndikian reward or punishment in rabbit eyelid conditioning. IS - 2 JF - J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process SN - 0097-7403 EP - 190 TI - Unconditional stimulus characteristics in rabbit eyelid conditioning. VL - 2 SP - 175 KW - aversive KW - conditioning KW - eyeblink KW - iccs KW - ucs AU - Frey, PW AU - Maisiak, R AU - Dugue, G PY - 1976/04// UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1271016 ER -