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Psychological Functions during Wave‐Spike Discharge
Author(s) -
TIZARD BARBARA,
MARGERISON J. H.
Publication year - 1964
Publication title -
british journal of social and clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0007-1293
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1964.tb00397.x
Subject(s) - psychology , stimulus (psychology) , audiology , duration (music) , cognitive psychology , medicine , acoustics , physics
The responses of six epileptics to a variety of psychological tests were studied during generalized WS discharge. All patients tended either to work more slowly or to cease work during WS lasting longer than 1 sec but some responses continued to be made even in discharges of long duration. The proportion of responses made during WS was shown to be related to the duration of WS, to individual characteristics of the patient and to the nature of the test. Modality of stimulus was not a significant variable. An attempt is made to explain the different numbers of responses occurring in different tests in terms of information theory.