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Cross-modal transfer of a specific discrimination in the rabbit

Arthur L. Yehle, +1 more
- 01 May 1969 - 
- Vol. 16, Iss: 5, pp 269-270
TLDR
Classical discrimination conditioning was employed to establish a discrimination between two rates of intermittent stimulation in the auditory modality for two rabbits and in the visual modalities for two additional rabbits.
Abstract
Classical discrimination conditioning was employed to establish a discrimination between two rates of intermittent stimulation in the auditory modality for two rabbits and in the visual modality for two additional rabbits. Acquisition of the initial discrimination was facilitated in the auditory condition. Following training in the original modality, the stimulus modality contingencies were exchanged and a test of transfer conducted. Transfer from audition to vision and from vision to audition was definitively shown by both the heart-rate and eyeblink responses.

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Transfer across CS-US intervals and sensory modalities in classical conditioning of the rabbit

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Cross-modal transfer as a function of similarities between training tasks in classical conditioning of the rabbit

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Object representation in the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus): integration of visual and echoic information.

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Disconnexion syndromes in animals and man. II

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- 01 Sep 1965 - 
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Interstimulus interval functions in different response systems during classical discrimination conditioning of rabbits

TL;DR: In this paper, four groups of rabbits received nictitating membrane (NM), heart rate (HR) and respiration rate (RR) classical discrimination conditioning to tones and shocks at interstimulus intervals of.25,.75, 2.25 and 6.75 sec.