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A rapid and sensitive method for measuring the conditional emotional response. II: On-the-baseline excitatory
W J Jacobs1, M Buttrick, D Kennedy
1Department of Psychology, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
The Pavlovian Journal of Biological Science
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
The present study outlines a rapid and sensitive on-the-baseline conditional emotional response (CER) procedure. Using rats as the experimental subject, the method detects delay conditioning, incubation, extinction and spontaneous recovery. In addition, the method detects conditional responding using electric shock ranging from 0.23 to 0.50 mA as the unconditional stimulus. Because of its speed and sensitivity, the method shelters the subject from unnecessary long-term deprivation and pain.