The relationship between latency of auditory evoked potentials, simple reaction time, and stimulus intensity.
The effects of loudness on the latency of evoked potentials and on simple reaction time were compared. It was found that both reaction time and the evoked-potential latency increases with decreasing stimulus intensity. However, different slopes of the curves were found. This is explained in terms of the arousal effect of loud auditory stimuli.
Jaskowski
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Department of Biophysics, Medical Academy in Poznan, Poland.
Rybarczyk
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K
Jaroszyk
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F
D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000328:Adult; D001887:Boredom; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000502:physiology; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005072:Evoked Potentials, Auditory / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008144:Loudness Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology*; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted