A parametric study of the separate contributions of the tactile and acoustic components of airpuffs to the blink reflex

Biological Psychology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 227-234

  Flaten, Magne Arve ^a   Blumenthal, Terry D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Airpuff; Blink reflex; Classical conditioning; Humans; Reflex facilitation; Startle

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC REFLEX; ADULT; AIR; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; STARTLE REFLEX;

ADULT; AIR; BLINKING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; TOUCH;

EID: 0032147478     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-0511(98)00018-0     Document Type: Article

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