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Two 14 day old chick embryos were conditioned to a tone associated with a shock. Definite changes were noted in the GSR records obtained from the Ss. Similar findings were also obtained for 15, 16, 17, and 18 day old embryos.
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1. Also The Payne Whitney Clinic, New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center.
An erratum to this article is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/BF03328109.
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Fried, R., Gluck, S. Conditioned galvanic skin response in the chick embryo: Preliminary report. Psychon Sci 6, 319–320 (1966). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03330914
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