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| Title |
Sea Slugs, Subliminal Pictures, and Vegetative State Patients: Boundaries of Consciousness in Classical Conditioning
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, January 2011
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00337 |
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| Authors |
Tristan A. Bekinschtein, Moos Peeters, Diego Shalom, Mariano Sigman |
| Abstract |
Classical (trace) conditioning is a specific variant of associative learning in which a neutral stimulus leads to the subsequent prediction of an emotionally charged or noxious stimulus after a temporal gap. When conditioning is concurrent with a distraction task, only participants who can report the relationship (the contingency) between stimuli explicitly show associative learning. This suggests that consciousness is a prerequisite for trace conditioning. We review and question three main controversies concerning this view. Firstly, virtually all animals, even invertebrate sea slugs, show this type of learning; secondly, unconsciously perceived stimuli may elicit trace conditioning; and thirdly, some vegetative state patients show trace learning. We discuss and analyze these seemingly contradictory arguments to find the theoretical boundaries of consciousness in classical conditioning. We conclude that trace conditioning remains one of the best measures to test conscious processing in the absence of explicit reports. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 33% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 33% |
| Unknown | 1 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 67% |
| Scientists | 1 | 33% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 68 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 6% |
| Germany | 1 | 1% |
| Korea, Republic of | 1 | 1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1% |
| Japan | 1 | 1% |
| Poland | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 59 | 87% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 20 | 29% |
| Researcher | 13 | 19% |
| Student > Master | 6 | 9% |
| Student > Bachelor | 5 | 7% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 5 | 7% |
| Other | 12 | 18% |
| Unknown | 7 | 10% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 20 | 29% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 14 | 21% |
| Neuroscience | 9 | 13% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 8 | 12% |
| Philosophy | 3 | 4% |
| Other | 4 | 6% |
| Unknown | 10 | 15% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 21. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 March 2012.
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