An effective paradigm for conditioning visual perception in human subjects.
Repeated pairing of an auditory conditioned stimulus with a weak visual unconditioned stimulus produced extended image sequences and visual responses conditioned to the tone alone. The experiment is set into the context of Pavlov's view of Helmholtz's "unconscious inference" thus providing experimental evidence linking the higher mental process of perception with classical conditioning.
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