Abstract
A number of studies have reported conditioning of the activity effects of drugs. In these studies, the eliciting or unconditioned stimulus (US) was an injection of a drug which produced a change in activity, and the conditioned stimulus (CS) was a neutral event, such as placing the animal in an activity cage, which was paired with the drug injection. As a result of the CS-US pairing, the presentation of the CS alone was found capable of producing a change in activity similar to that elicited originally by the drug itself.
Preparation of this chapter was supported in part by USPHS Research Grants No. MH-14112 and MH-15349 to the University of Minnesota.
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Pickens, R., Dougherty, J.A. (1971). Conditioning of the Activity Effects of Drugs. In: Thompson, T., Pickens, R. (eds) Stimulus Properties of Drugs. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0788-5_3
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