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Skin potential responses to tone, and tone plus light, were separated for analysis into positive and negative components. The positive component showed typical orienting response characteristics (in the Sokolov sense), whereas the negative seemed to reflect stimulus registration. Conditioning of the positive component did not occur.
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Completed as NIMH Clinical Research Fellow (U.S.P.H.S.), now at University of Notre Dame, Indiana.
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Loveless, E., Thetford, P. Interpretation and Conditioning of the Positive and Negative Components of the Skin Potential Response. Psychol Rec 16, 357–360 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03393679
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