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EFFECT OF VISUAL DEPRIVATION ON AUDITORY VIGILANCE
Author(s) -
BAKAN PAUL,
MANLEY RICHARD
Publication year - 1963
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1963.tb00866.x
Subject(s) - vigilance (psychology) , psychology , audiology , sensory deprivation , visual perception , auditory perception , visual attention , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , perception , neuroscience , sensory system , medicine
Signal detection in an auditory vigilance task is compared under conditions of normal visual stimulation and of visual deprivation produced by a blindfold. The task consists of detecting sequences of three different digits in the order odd‐even‐odd, appearing in a continuous series of digits. Sighted males detect significantly fewer signals than blindfolded males. The visual deprivation variable has no significant effect on female performance. There is some evidence from retrospective reports that sighted males are more emotional and perhaps aroused to a point which impairs efficient vigilance performance.