Rationale: Since the mid-1970s, cross-species translational studies of prepulse inhibition
(PPI) have increased at an astounding pace as the value of this neurobiologically …

The human startle eyeblink reflex is reliably modified by both cognitive and emotional
processes. This review provides a comprehensive survey of the current literature on human …

1. Introduction. 2. Constructs and Measures. 3. Looking and Visual Attention: Overview and
Developmental Framework. 4. Scanning, Searching, and Shifting Attention. 5. Development …

Although infants enter the world with a set of inborn reflexes for reacting to external stimuli,
they cannot be seen as passive machines responding only to external input; inborn …

Startle responses to bursts of white noise were recorded as blink reflexes 17-21 months after
a traumatic event in six children with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and in six normal …

Temperament has been a concern of human thought from earliest times. The ancient
Greeks, for example, developed a temperament typology based upon individual differences …

Information processing is generally assumed to involve both automatic/preattentive and
controlled/attentional processes, and research has been concerned with what reactions to …

Startle modulation was induced by prestimulation in 43, 6–11 year old boys with attention‐
deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), 13 of whom were or had been enuretic, 17 age …

This outstanding book contains inspiring stories of late 20th century women who broke new
ground in psychological knowledge and its applications. The lives and careers of 53 women …

Four experiments were conducted to investigate the acoustic startle response to stimuli of
low intensities. Eyeblink responses (integrated EMG from orbicularis oculi) were measured …