Age and novelty: Event-related brain potentials and autonomic activity

被引:21
作者
Weisz, Julia [1 ]
Czigler, Istvan [1 ]
机构
[1] Hungarian Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, H-1394 Budapest, Hungary
关键词
habituation; orienting reaction; visual novelty; event-related potentials; skin conductance response; evoked cardiac deceleration;
D O I
10.1111/j.1469-8986.2006.00395.x
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Our aim was to study age-related differences in the habituation of orienting reaction by using novel visual stimuli. We intended to fill a gap in habituation research by recording both autonomic and ERP components of orienting to visual stimuli in the same sample and in highly related paradigms. We report data showing that in young subjects repetition of visual novels yielded fast habituation of both skin conductance responses and ERP components (P3(novel), N2b) whereas elderly people displayed no sign of habituation. However, cardiac deceleration-thought conventionally to be part of the orienting reaction-did not habituate in either group. Overall, most of our results harmonize with those obtained by using auditory stimuli; therefore we conclude that there is no significant modality specificity in age-related deterioration of habituation processes.
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页码:261 / 271
页数:11
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