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Keywords: Neal Miller, Leo DiCara, curare, visceral learning, biofeedback paradigm
The author describes two encounters with Neal Miller, including a discussion of the pioneering curare/visceral learning experiments and of Miller's perspective on the biofeedback training paradigm.
My favorite Neal Miller memories come from two separate biofeedback conferences. First, while in Japan to attend the Third International Bio-behavioral Health and Self-Regulation meeting in 1993, I had the distinct pleasure of sitting next to Dr. Miller for more than an hour on a bus ride in Tokyo.
At that time, I questioned him about why it had been so difficult to replicate his...