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Conditional Discrimination in the Intraverbal Relation: A Review and Recommendations for Future Research

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Conditional discrimination is inherent in the intraverbal relation when one verbal stimulus alters the evocative effect of another verbal stimulus and they collectively evoke an intraverbal response. Rarely in research on conditional discriminations have both conditional and discriminative stimuli been vocal verbal and rarely have the responses been topography-based. Making conditional discriminations in intraverbal behavior is a repertoire that is often delayed in children with autism and other developmental disabilities. Reviewed in this paper is research on teaching intraverbal behavior, auditory conditional discriminations, and restricted stimulus control. The purpose of these reviews is to identify the extent to which previous researchers examined conditional discriminations in the intraverbal relation and to recommend directions for research in this area.

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Axe, J.B. Conditional Discrimination in the Intraverbal Relation: A Review and Recommendations for Future Research. Analysis Verbal Behav 24, 159–174 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03393064

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