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The human eyeblink response was conditioned as a free operant, employing a double-blind yoked-control procedure. High levels of conditioning were obtained with experimental Ss by employing either a visual or auditory reward signal. No significant differences in response level were associated with reward signal modality in conditioning nor, as previously hypothesized, for yoked controls. Evidence for a significant conditioning effect was obtained even when the data of only “unaware” Ss were considered.
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The final draft of this paper was prepared while the senior author was a Special Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Research in Human Leading, University of Minnesota. Partial support was provided by grants to the Center from the National Science Foundation (GB-17590), the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (HD-01136 and HD-00098), and the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota.
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Schumsky, D.A., Trinder, J. & Richman, C.L. Human operant eyelid conditioning: Auditory vs visual reinforcing signal. Psychon Sci 22, 359–360 (1971). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03332620
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03332620