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The Orienting Response: Index of Attention

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The Neuropsychology of Attention

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The orienting response (OR) is a fundamental element of classical conditioning. For Pavlov, it provided a means of determining whether a stimulus could serve as a CR. The OR eventually became the focus of much interest in its own right, as it reflected the animal’s initial overt reaction to a new, soon-to-be-conditioned stimulus. Stimuli that have little inherent salience elicit an OR before conditioning. Pavlov referred to this as a “what is it” reflex. The OR signals an observable attentional reaction before learning. For this reason, the OR has considerable relevance to the study of attention.

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