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Cross modal transfer of a conditional flexion response in dogs

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Two experiments investigated cross modal transfer of a conditional flexion response. In the first experiment, two dogs with extensive experimental past histories transferred a discrimination based on the pattern of presentation of auditory stimuli to a comparable pattern of visual stimuli. A second experiment with a naive dog demonstrated that such stimulus patterning also occurred from visual to auditory modalities. Additional tests showed that transfer was based on the relationship between discriminative stimuli and that the negative stimulus in the second modality was actively inhibitory. The data were discussed with reference to general attentiveness and rudimentary concept learning.

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  1. Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

    Peter Seraganian

  2. The Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology, Moscow, USSR

    Yevgenia Ivanovna Popova

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This research was conducted at the Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology while Dr. Seraganian was on an exchange program between the National Research Council of Canada and the Soviet Academy of Sciences.

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Seraganian, P., Popova, Y.I. Cross modal transfer of a conditional flexion response in dogs. Pav. J. Biol. Sci. 11, 162–174 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03000293

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