classical conditioning
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All the subjects took turns in an MRI machine, where the researchers induced auditory hallucinations with classical conditioning, following the example of Pavlov and his dogs.
From Salon
Notar said the results are "exciting" because "classical conditioning hasn't really been shown definitively in this group of animals before."
From Science Daily
Associative learning, which includes classical conditioning, is one of the simplest types of learning and has been studied intensively over the past century.
From Science Daily
To induce a new memory in the fish, we used a type of learning process called classical conditioning.
From Salon
In an example of classical conditioning, ferrets trained to associate a signal with a stimulus that causes a blink at regular intervals will blink at the appropriate moment after hearing the signal alone.
From Scientific American
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