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ONSET AND TERMINAL ORIENTING RESPONSES AS A FUNCTION OF TASK DEMANDS
Author(s) -
Beideman Larky R.,
Stern John A.
Publication year - 1971
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.1469-8986.1971.tb00467.x
Subject(s) - habituation , psychology , orienting response , stimulus (psychology) , audiology , stern , developmental psychology , duration (music) , cognitive psychology , neuroscience , medicine , art , literature , marine engineering , engineering
The frequency of response and trials to habituation of the electrodermal onset and terminal orienting response were manipulated as a function of discrimination tasks involving either stimulus content (pitch) or duration. There were no significant differences between the groups on either measure for onset ORs; however, the duration task group demonstrated more TORs and required a greater number of trials to habituate than the content task group. The results, interpreted in terms of the development of cortical models, supported Stern's suggestion that OR and TOR habituation are related to the content and duration of the stimulus respectively.