Premium
Effects of Feedback on the Control of Skin Temperature Using the Tension‐Relaxation Experiment
Author(s) -
Okouchi Hiroto
Publication year - 1991
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.1469-8986.1991.tb01013.x
Subject(s) - psychology , relaxation (psychology) , feedback regulation , skin temperature , negative feedback , feedback control , session (web analytics) , audiology , physical medicine and rehabilitation , social psychology , computer science , medicine , biomedical engineering , physics , mathematics education , quantum mechanics , voltage , control engineering , world wide web , engineering
The effects of feedback on the control of peripheral skin temperature were examined using a tension‐relaxation experiment. Sixteen male undergraduates were assigned to feedback or no‐feedback groups and asked to increase the temperature of the right index finger immediately after decreasing with (in the feedback group) or without (in the no‐feedback group) feedback during 10 training sessions. A no‐feedback transfer session (post‐test) followed these sessions. During the training sessions, skin temperature corresponded to instructions in the feedback group, whereas it did not in the no‐feedback group. Feedback control did not transfer to the no‐feedback condition. These results were discussed in terms of the ceiling‐effect hypothesis in the baseline‐relaxation type experiment and of the subjects' cognitive events, including strategies.