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Heart Rate, Activity, and Activation in Rats
Author(s) -
Elliott Rogers
Publication year - 1975
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.1469-8986.1975.tb01294.x
Subject(s) - habituation , psychology , heart rate , developmental psychology , audiology , neuroscience , medicine , blood pressure
Two experiments, repeated patterns of results in which heart rate (HR) and rate of instrumental activity were negatively related. In the first experiment, HR covaried substantially with gross movement, both measures responding similarly in experimental and deprivation conditions though not to time (habituation). Different categories of behavior were associated with different levels of HR. In the second experiment, the rate of instrumental consummatory behavior was inversely related to other, high‐HR behaviors, and the cardiac and somatic measures were again independent in their response to time.