Once the bell starts to provoke salivation, the bell has become a "conditioned stimulus" (CS) and the salivating, when prompted by the bell alone, a "conditioned response" (CR).
He noticed improvements in their salivation and appetite, and eventually in their weight and overall health.
Another suggested, even more alarmingly, that clashing colour schemes might adversely affect "salivation".
Using curarized animals, Miller and others made the rewarding stimulation contingent on such typically involuntary responses as changes in heart rate, blood pressure, contractions of the bowel, and salivation.
Excessive salivation and grinding of teeth may be caused by an abnormality in the mouth.
A response such as salivation, originally evoked only by the effective stimulus, eventually appears when the initially neutral stimulus is presented.
The end results are increased perspiration, increased salivation, tearing, blurred vision, abdominal cramping, diarrhea, and if severe enough, death from respiratory depression.
The dog's salivation at the sound of the bell alone is called a conditioned response.
The dog's salivation upon hearing this sound is the conditioned response (CR).
For slower reactions such as salivation the interval is longer, perhaps two seconds or so.
The food itself elicited copious salivation, but, after a few trials, the ticking of the metronome, which regularly preceded the delivery of food, also elicited salivation.
