Prepulse effects on magnitude estimation of startle-eliciting stimuli and startle responses

被引:37
作者
Blumenthal, TD
Schicatano, EJ
Chapman, JG
Norris, CM
Ergenzinger, ER
机构
[1] Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
[2] Department of Psychology, Wake Forest University, Reynolda Station, Winston-Salem
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PERCEPTION & PSYCHOPHYSICS | 1996年 / 58卷 / 01期
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10.3758/BF03205477
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B84 [心理学];
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04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
The present studies investigated the relationship between prepulse effects on the modification of the brainstem startle reflex and magnitude estimates of startle-eliciting stimuli. In Experiment 1, startle eyeblink responses were elicited in 24 students, half of whom were instructed to estimate the loudness of the startle stimulus (actual intensities of 80, 90, and 100 dB) and half of whom were instructed to estimate the magnitude of their eyeblink. When weak acoustic prepulses preceded the startle-eliciting stimulus, eyeblink amplitude was inhibited, and estimates of response magnitude decreased, but estimates of startle stimulus magnitude decreased only when 100-dB startle stimuli were presented. In Experiment 2, the same startle stimuli were preceded on some trials by a vibrotactile prepulse to the hand. In conditions in which startle amplitude was inhibited, startle stimulus magnitude estimates were not affected. This suggests that the effect of acoustic prepulses on 100-dB startle stimuli in Experiment 1 may have been due to loudness assimilation, an effect independent of the prepulse inhibition of startle responding.
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