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- Title
Conditioning a Discriminated Eyeblink Response to the 'Truth Value' of Statements.
- Authors
Tomash, J.; Reed, Phil
- Abstract
Two experiments examined the conditioning of a discriminated eyeblink response to the abstract property of 'truthfulness' in visually presented verbal statements. Learning was assessed with a measure of change in eyelid activity following conditioned stimulus (CS) presentations. In the first experiment, a list of randomized statements was presented, half of which were true and half of which were false. Each false statement in this experiment was paired with a corneal air puff (the US). The second experiment used the same procedure to compare true and false statements as conditioned stimuli, except it varied the range of CS-US intervals employed. The results support previous findings by showing that the truth value of presented statements can serve as a conditioned stimulus in an eyeblink conditioning procedure, and that both true and false statements can serve as conditioned stimuli. The results also show that the interstimulus interval is an important factor in such conditioning. Implications for future research, and the interpretation of previous studies exploring similar conditioning, are discussed.
- Publication
Psychological Record, 2015, Vol 65, Issue 4, p657
- ISSN
0033-2933
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1007/s40732-015-0136-1