 Hey Chastity thanks for your wonderful question on our Facebook page. Yep. Thanks, Chastity. Great question Chastity So we're gonna do our best to answer you To the best of our knowledge which let's put a qualifier. Yeah, we might be wrong We're funny, but not always it. No, we're gonna do our best. We don't know. So no, we do know We'll give you a shot. How is stimulus for those of you that are not Chastity that don't know our question Here you go. Here's what she asked How is stimulus stimulus pairing used for increasing vocal behavior? All right, that's one. How does it relate to the production of spontaneous vocalizations? That's two And three, how is it related to vocal imitations and four? What are the limitations of stimulus stimulus pairing Chastity? I first need to tell you you need to find a PhD program in verbal behavior, ha ha You have posed a hell of a question and you stumped us for a couple of days We've been working hard on trying to get you an answer. That's for sure Yep, so I think the important thing is just to go over stimulus pairing. Right So you got stimuli and you're gonna make them go through a history and pair them, right? So the way I first talked and thought about your question was similar to exactly what Brad just said Which we're gonna take maybe Brad's teaching me to talk, right? So he's a stimulus So we're gonna pair another stimulus with him. Do you have another stimulus handy? Oh look Forcing on the last yeah ironically so so I think what we could do if I understand your question correctly We understand it that we could take Brad and pair him with that stimulus, right? I'm the only one that has this phone, right? So then when the presence of that phone, I might be more likely to talk to you right without Brad So Brad could give that phone to Somebody else and I might talk on the presence of that person, right? I think that's what you're getting out of that piece to my understanding. Yeah, it's kind of it It's both a very pointed and very broad question at the same time I'm not trying to pick on you, but there's such a really bigger stimulus stimulus pairing is huge So we do know that you're going after the verbal behavior piece So that's the way we went with yeah, how do you pair that particular thing? So that makes me go to the bottom of your question the fourth part. What are the limitations to stimulus stimulus pairing? Not a whole lot as far as stimuli can be paired with each other That's just a matter of finding the right set of a stimuli be the reinforcer if you will right and and also Not trying to go like secondary or tertiary or whatever a coordinate level conditioning So we're not going to pair something else with this I would keep it very simple and just focus on if we're if we're getting you just if your question, right? Then I would focus on just pairing one stimulus with the person doing the training like Brad And then that that child might be or that person or whatever might be more likely to vocalize in the presence of that stimulus So give it to the parent, right? That's the idea. Yeah, sweet. We're going to tackle any of these other ones Yeah, so off to the second part stimulus stimulus pairing to increase spontaneous vocalizations How does it the production of spontaneous? How does it relate to the production? How does it relate to the production? I don't really the production as much as the increase in frequencies of the of Vocalization right in the presence of that stimulus. Yeah, so the baby has to happen You can't really just have a stimuli create a vocalization. You can only reinforce it, right? So through stimulus stimulus pairing you can take said phone or me the kid might Or hopefully will increase in vocalizations totally agree The idea being you can get the frequencies within a training session or within a clinic setting that you can get stimulus in this pairing to ramp up that frequency so high for those vocalizations that they'll Generalize out and become spontaneous in another setting. It looks spontaneous But it's really went through a generalization training procedure or a maintenance procedure even at the first level Yeah, but I mean you have to understand what our logic went from does the organism? Does the person have this core skill can they vocalize right so can they deliver in a codec, right? Can they deliver it? Is it in their damn repertoire because if so then then then you can start to shape the occurrence of it or When it's going to happen so on so forth. Yeah, how's it related to vocal imitations? Again vocal imitation is a special skill, right? So why not just teach that special skill in one context and generalize it to a new context? Yeah, stimulus stimulus parents. Yeah Hopefully that helps. Yeah, and I think we've over we might have oversimplified your question So if that's the case, please tell us and we'll do our best to get another response out to you But thank you for participating and yeah along because all the shares. Yes all the shares. Yeah tons of them So we encourage anyone else to do the same. Yeah, anyway, we're here to help and try to digest this stuff Yeah, so exactly cool. Thank you. Jazzity. See you guys Yeah