HUMAN PAVLOVIAN AUTONOMIC CONDITIONING AND ITS RELATION TO AWARENESS OF THE CS US CONTINGENCY - FOCUS ON THE PHENOMENON AND SOME FORGOTTEN FACTS - COMMENTARY/

Although conditional stimulus (CS)/unconditional stimulus (US) conting ency awareness appears to be necessary for human Pavlovian autonomic c onditioning, only a selective review of the literature and the forgett ing of certain basic, brute facts can allow the cognitive conclusion t hat awareness causes, or even is important for, conditioning. That con clusion is theoretically barren for explaining the phenomenon and is a lso of little potential practical use.