Effects of foreperiod duration on reflexive and voluntary responses to intense noise bursts

Psychophysiology

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 518-526

  Sollers III, John J ^a   Hackley, Steven A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Alerting; Auditory attention; Brain stem; EMG; Expectancy; Immediate arousal; Orbicularis oculi

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC REFLEX; ADULT; ALERTNESS; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN STEM; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EYELID REFLEX; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HAND GRIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBICULARIS OCULI MUSCLE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; STARTLE REFLEX; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

EID: 0030882083     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.1997.tb01738.x     Document Type: Article

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