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HEART RATE RESPONSES OF THE CURARIZED RAT
Author(s) -
Hahn William W.,
Slaughter John
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
psychophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.661
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1469-8986
pISSN - 0048-5772
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8986.1970.tb01768.x
Subject(s) - psychology , unconditioned stimulus , heart rate , conditioning , stimulus (psychology) , classical conditioning , anesthesia , medicine , blood pressure , cognitive psychology , statistics , mathematics
Heart rate of curarized and non‐curarized rats was recorded while both groups were exposed to classical conditioning procedures with tone as the conditional stimulus (CS) and shock as the unconditional stimulus (UCS). The unconditional HR response of curarized animals to the tone was significantly greater than that of the non‐curarized animals, while the HR response to shock of the curarized animals was significantly less than that of the non‐curarized group. Both groups showed evidence of conditioning over 30 conditioning trials.