Performance during early and late phases of operant conditioning of cardiac function differs, suggesting distinct mechanisms for acquisition and chronic control.
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Distinguishes acquisition from maintenance phases in cardiac conditioning; leaves open mechanism-specific interventions pending prospective trials.
The mechanisms of operant conditioning of cardiac function can be analyzed in terms of cardiodynamics, hemodynamics, neural regulations, and psychological regulations. These separate analyses help to suggest a number of experimental hypotheses. Analyses of data from early and late phases of conditioning show that performance at these two stages of training is different: Analyses of acquisition mechanisms must come from the early phase of training, however, analyses of control mechanisms should probably be derived from chronic studies.
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Bernard T. Engel (1972) studied this question.
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