Preception in the Rat: Autonomic Response to Shock as Function of Length of Warning Interval
- 31 August 1962
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 137 (3531) , 665-666
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.137.3531.665
Abstract
The autonomic response (galvanic skin response) to a noxious stimulus (shock) is reduced when the stimulus is preceded by a warning signal. The greatest reduction, 53 percent, was obtained with a warning interval of 1 second. Warning also reduces variance of the response over trials, a decrease of over 90 percent for the optimum 1-second interval.Keywords
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