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Definition of 'Conditioning, Classical'

Learning that takes place when a conditioned stimulus is paired with an unconditioned stimulus.

Common names: Conditioning, Classical; Classical Conditioning; Classical Conditionings; Conditionings, Classical; Reflex, Conditioned; Conditioned Reflex

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Saturday, November 07, 2009

Associative pairing involving monocular stimulation selectively mobilizes a subclass of GABAergic interneurons in the mouse visual cortex.

18 Oct 2009 Levels of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and its synthesizing enzyme in cerebral cortex are regulated by sensory experience. Previously we found that associative pairing of vibrissae stimulation and tail shock results in upregulation of GABAergic ... Read more...


Analgesia accompanying food consumption requires ingestion of hedonic foods.

12 Oct 2009 Animals eat rather than react to moderate pain. Here, we examined the behavioral, hedonic, and neural requirements for ingestion analgesia in ad libitum fed rats. Noxious heat-evoked withdrawals were similarly suppressed during self-initiated ... Read more...


Dynamic computation of incentive salience: "wanting" what was never "liked".

28 Sep 2009 Pavlovian cues for rewards become endowed with incentive salience, guiding "wanting" to their learned reward. Usually, cues are "wanted" only if their rewards have ever been "liked," but here we show that mesocorticolimbic systems can recompute ... Read more...

 

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Definition: Learning that takes place when a conditioned stimulus is paired with an unconditioned stimulus.

Descriptor UI: D003214

Alternative terms: Conditioning, Classical; Classical Conditioning; Classical Conditionings; Conditionings, Classical; Reflex, Conditioned; Conditioned Reflex;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics;

Tree Number: F02.463.425.179.308;

Online Note: use CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL to search REFLEX, CONDITIONED 1966-72

History Note: 73(66); REFLEX, CONDITIONED was heading 1963-72

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