Data from a number of salivation studies were analyzed to see whether treatment effects are systematically related to prestimulus values; in other words, does the Law of Initial Value (LIV) hold. The diversity of techniques, methods, and subjects in the nine experiments studied, enabled a comprehensive assessment to be made. Results suggest that the Law does not consistently operate for salivation.
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Keith D. White (1977) studied this question.
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