Associative learning: Pavlovian conditioning without awareness.
Can Pavlovian conditioning occur outside of awareness? Yes, according to a new study showing that, under a particular set of circumstances, visual stimuli can become associated with aversive outcomes without participants ever seeing the stimuli.
School of Psychology, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Joel@pearsonlab.org
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