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HEART RATE CONTROL UNDER CONDITIONS OF AUGMENTED SENSORY FEEDBACK 1
Author(s) -
Brener Jasper,
Hothersall David
Publication year - 1966
Publication title -
psychophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.661
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1469-8986
pISSN - 0048-5772
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8986.1966.tb02675.x
Subject(s) - heartbeat , psychology , stimulus (psychology) , sensory system , heart rate , audiology , interval (graph theory) , cognitive psychology , communication , blood pressure , mathematics , computer security , computer science , medicine , combinatorics , radiology
Five human S s were presented with a high frequency tone on the emission of each short inter‐heartbeat interval and a low frequency tone on the emission of each long inter‐heartbeat interval. Under these conditions, all S s learned within a short period of time to produce significantly lower heart rates in the presence of one visual stimulus than in the presence of another. On the basis of this finding, it is suggested that an important determinant of where a given response falls on the voluntary/involuntary continuum is the availability of specific feedback from the response in question.