Effects of prepulse intensity, duration, and bandwidth on perceived intensity of startling acoustic stimuli

Biological Psychology

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 389-395

  Swerdlow, Neal R ^a   Blumenthal, Terry D ^b   Sutherland, Ashley N ^a   Weber, Erica ^a   Talledo, Jo A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Perception; Prepulse inhibition; Sensorimotor gating

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INHIBITION KINETICS; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; NOISE MEASUREMENT; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PARAMETRIC TEST; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; STARTLE REFLEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CUES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 33846547082     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2006.10.001     Document Type: Article

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