A Renewed Interest in Human Classical Eyeblink Conditioning

Abstract

Over the past few years, a number of publications have reported the results of a variety of human classical eyeblink conditioning experiments. This renewed interest in human classical eyeblink conditioning appears to be caused by several factors, including the preference by some researchers to observe and report on behavior directly, the discovery that eyeblink conditioning can be used to assess basic biological and psychological processes, recent success in using eyeblink conditioning to determine the cause and expression of brain pathologies, and the successful use of this simple behavioral procedure in human imaging and electrophysiological experiments.