Can human autonomic classical conditioning occur without contingency awareness? The critical importance of the trial sequence

Biological Psychology

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 197-205

  Singh, Kulwinder ^a   Dawson, Michael E ^a   Schell, Anne M ^b   Courtney, Christopher G ^a   Payne, Andrew F H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Aversive autonomic classical conditioning; Contingency awareness; Skin conductance; Trial sequence effects

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; AWARENESS; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; AWARENESS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84875271093     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: 18736246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2013.02.007     Document Type: Article

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