Publication Date:
1983-05-13
Description:
The existence of low-level filtering of sensory input is a point of debate among cognitive theorists. This present study suggests that filtering by modality exists at levels low enough to modulate the brainstem blink reflex and that it is evident as early as the 16th week of life. During foreground listening or looking conditions, blinks elicited by acoustic or visual probes were larger when probe and foreground modality matched than when they mismatched. "Interesting" foregrounds, by comparison with "dull" ones, intensified the modality-selective effect.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Anthony, B J -- Graham, F K -- HDO1490/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- K3-MH21762/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- MHO1798/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1983 May 13;220(4598):742-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6836312" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Attention/*physiology
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Blinking
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Child Development
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Electromyography
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Hearing/physiology
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Heart Rate
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Humans
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Infant
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*Psychology, Child
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Vision, Ocular/physiology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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