EVOKED VISUALS RESPONSES IN MAN DURING AUDITORY STRESS,

Abstract

A ranscranial study in man of evoked visual responses due to intermittent light stimulation during silence or intense prolonged auditory stimulation. These responses were recorded with conventional E.E.G. as ''photic driving,'' or with an apparatus of integration (the phasotron of Remond) as an average evoked potential. They are increased at the start of sound stimulation and diminished during its continuation. If due account is taken of the corresponding modifications of the fundamental E.E.G. rhythms, one may consider these phenomena as being due to activation with subsequent inhibition of the reticular formation. This would equally explain the psychometric changes, and the lowering of efficiency and of personnel security observed during stress by sound. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 30, 1963
Accession Number
AD0428239

Entities

People

  • H. J. Gastaut

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Stimulation
  • Brain
  • Efficiency
  • Electrophysiological Phenomena
  • Inhibition
  • Medical Personnel
  • Security
  • Security Personnel

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Auditory Neuroscience/Auditory Physiology.
  • Brain and Cognitive Science; Experimental Psychology; Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Vision Science/Vision Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience.