The conditioning of the human fetus in utero.
- 1 January 1948
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Experimental Psychology
- Vol. 38 (3) , 338-346
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0059632
Abstract
With a vibrotactile effect as conditioned stimulus and a loud noise as unconditioned stimulus, conditioned responses were established more or less completely in 5 human fetuses during the last 2 gestation months. Experimental extinction, spontaneous recovery, and retention of the response over a 3-weeks'' interval were demonstrated.Keywords
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