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Cerebellum and Classical Conditioning

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Cerebellum and Neuronal Plasticity

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Towards the end of the last century, I.P. Pavlov introduced conditioning of motor and alimentary responses as a technique for rigorously analysing the neural basis of learning. The technique for Pavlovian, or classical conditioning, is simple but powerful. A behaviouraly neutral stimulus (the conditioned stimulus — CS) is paired with another stimulus (the unconditioned stimulus — US) which reliably and unconditionally elicits a particular reflex response (the unconditioned response — UR). After a sufficient number of these stimulus pairings, the previously neutral stimulus now elicits a response (the conditioned response — CR) see (Figure 1). Procedurally, we may think of this as the simplest form of associative learning.

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Yeo, C.H. (1987). Cerebellum and Classical Conditioning. In: Glickstein, M., Yeo, C., Stein, J. (eds) Cerebellum and Neuronal Plasticity. NATO ASI Series, vol 148. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0965-9_21

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