ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explains the use of a biological strategy, and in different ways. It discusses the contribution of respiratory factors. The book discusses the conditioning of heart rate, since it is the response for which the replication difficulties. Prior to conference, it was conspicuously rumored that difficulties were being experienced by a number of investigators in the replication of operant cardiovascular conditioning in curarized rats. Among those investigators engaged in research on learned cardiovascular control in humans there seems to be general agreement that a skills-acquisition-feedback approach provides a more powerful conceptual framework than does the traditional operant approach. The development of learned cardiovascular control is generally conceded to depend on the provision of exteroceptive feedback of effector activity. Voluntary control depends on an "awareness" of the response to be controlled.
