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ORIENTING AND DEFENCE REACTIONS TO SIMPLE AUDITORY STIMULATION IN MAN
Author(s) -
CARROLL DOUGLAS
Publication year - 1974
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.2044-8295.1974.tb02770.x
Subject(s) - stimulus (psychology) , stimulation , forehead , vasomotor , psychology , arousal , audiology , blood volume , neuroscience , anesthesia , medicine , anatomy , cognitive psychology
Soviet psychophysiologists have presented evidence that two distinct physiological arousal reactions can be isolated on the basis of forehead vasomotor response to moderate and intense stimulation. Recent Western studies, however, have generally found forehead vasomotor response to be insensitive to stimulus intensity manipulations. In the present study forehead blood volume and blood volume pulse were monitored from the temporal artery area while subjects received bursts of moderate and intense auditory stimulation. Both aspects of circulatory change were found to be sensitive to stimulus intensity.