Learning and Timing of Voluntary Blink Responses Match Eyeblink Conditioning

Abstract Can humans produce well-timed blink responses to a neutral stimulus voluntarily, without receiving any blink-eliciting, unconditional, stimulus? And if they can, to what degree does classical eyeblink conditioning depend on volition? Here we show that voluntary blink responses learned in tw...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Anders Rasmussen, Dan-Anders Jirenhed
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017-06-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-03343-2