Effects of CS-US interval on unconditioned response diminution in human heart rate classical conditioning

Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 30-38

  Redondo, Jaime ^a   Marcos, José L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Classical conditioning; Conditioned response; Heart rate; Interstimulus interval; Unconditioned response

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DECELERATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOELECTRIC PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; RANDOMIZATION; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 0038421678     PISSN: 02698803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027//0269-8803.17.1.30     Document Type: Article

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