Classical conditioning is widely used to study motivational properties of addictive drugs in animals, but has rarely been used in humans. We established a procedure suitable for studying the ...

Classical conditioning is a type of unconscious learning. It occurs when a person or animal experiences an automatic response whenever they encounter a specific stimulus. Simply put, it is learning ...

The elucidation of the classical conditioning paradigm has been attributed to Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936), who won the Nobel Prize for Physiology/Medicine for his work on reflexes and ...