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Decision diagram of tracheal stimulation. Tracheal stimulation protocol starts with the standard 600 ms stimulus. Each animal underwent 8 stimulations with the initial 600 ms stimulus. Duration of stimulus is decreased or increased stepwise, depending respectively on occurrence (+) or absence (−) of defensive response. Each stimulation step using stimulation duration other than 600 ms was tested 4 times.
