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  • The effects of reflex stimulus intensity and stimulus onset asynchrony on prepulse inhibition and perceived intensity of the blink-eliciting stimulus.

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    Author(s)
    Neumann, David L
    Van Beurden, Larissa
    Lipp, Ottmar V
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    Neumann, David L.
    Year published
    2006
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    Prepulse inhibition of the blink reflex is widely applied to investigate information processing deficits in schizophrenia and other psychiatric patient groups. The present experiment investigated the hypothesis that prepulse inhibition reflects a transient process that protects preattentive processing of the prepulse. Participants were presented with pairs of blink-eliciting noises, some preceded by a prepulse at a variable stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA), and were asked to rate the intensity of the second noise relative to the first. Inhibition of blink amplitude was greater for a 110 dB(A) noise than for a 95 dB(A) noise ...
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    Prepulse inhibition of the blink reflex is widely applied to investigate information processing deficits in schizophrenia and other psychiatric patient groups. The present experiment investigated the hypothesis that prepulse inhibition reflects a transient process that protects preattentive processing of the prepulse. Participants were presented with pairs of blink-eliciting noises, some preceded by a prepulse at a variable stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA), and were asked to rate the intensity of the second noise relative to the first. Inhibition of blink amplitude was greater for a 110 dB(A) noise than for a 95 dB(A) noise with a 120 ms SOA, whereas there was no difference with a 30 ms SOA. The perceived intensity was also lower for the 110 dB(A) noise than for the 95 dB(A) noise with the 120 ms SOA, but not with the 30 ms SOA. The parallel results support a relationship between prepulse inhibition of response amplitude and perceived intensity. However, the prepulse did not reduce intensity ratings relative to control trials in some conditions, suggesting that prepulse inhibition is not
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    Journal Title
    Australian Journal of Psychology
    Volume
    58
    Issue
    2
    Publisher URI
    http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/00049530.asp
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/00049530600730427
    Copyright Statement
    © 2006 Taylor & Francis. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Cognitive and computational psychology
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/14241
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