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Punched paper tape readers, frequently used for machine control and computer input, are readily adaptable for the purposes of presenting extremely complex signal sequences such as those used in psychophysiology. A description of basic operating principles is given together with an explanation of the minor modifications necessary to adapt this instrument to signal control. Complete schematics are presented of an instrument with seven channel control capacity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents abstracts of papers presented at the eighth annual meeting of the association for the psychophysiological study of sleep at Colorado during March 22-24, 1968. Some of the topics of presented in the papers included Cortical Monophasic wave activity during Rapid Eye Movement Sleep (REM) and Wakefulness. Preliminary note on the sleep and waking cycle in the desert hedgehog (Paraechinus Hypomelus). Name of some of the psychologists who contributed articles during the meeting were Francois Michel, J. Allan Hobson and many others.

The article presents abstracts of papers presented to the seventh annual meeting of the Association for the Psychophysiological Study of Sleep (APSS). The seventh annual meeting of the APSS was held at the Miramar Hotel, Santa Monica, California in April 1967. APSS was founded in 1961 for the purpose of promoting both formal and informal exchange of information among workers from various disciplines with a common interest in the psychophysiology of sleep.

The article presents a brief outline of papers presented at the thirteenth annual meeting of The Society for Psychophysiological Research that was held between October 25 and 28, 1973 at the Galvez Hotel and Motel in Galveston, Texas. Members of the program committee were professors Peter J. Lang, Hiram E. Fitzgerald and David T. Graham. Some of these papers include "Heart Rate Variability and Heart Rate Conditioning in Human Newborns," by L.E. Stamps, "Habituation and Dishabituation of Cardiac Orienting in Human Newborns," by C.D. Adkinson and W.K. Berg and "Developing Changes in Response Recovery," by E. Scott and M. Lewis.

This article presents abstracts of papers presented at the twelfth annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, which was held at the Hotel Sheraton-Plaza in Boston, Massachusetts on November 9-12, 1972. The paper presented by J.C. Jackson and F.K. Graham of the University of Wisconsin cites threshold intensity effects on two orienting response components. Sokolovian theory suggests that the orienting response should be large near psychophysical threshold, fall to a minimum around 10-20 decibels and then rise again until it is depressed by competition with the defense reflex.

The article presents abstracts of papers presented at the tenth annual meeting of Society for Psychophysiological Research, which was held at Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, from November 19-22, 1970. Some abstracts of papers that were presented at the meeting are "Response Imperativeness and the Cardiac Wave-Form During the Preparation of a Motor and "Mental" Reaction Response," by Gary E. Schwartz and J. Higgins and "Respiration and Heart Rate Indices of Reaction Time," by Stephen W. Porges.

This article presents abstracts of papers presented at the seventh annual meeting of Society for Psychophysiological Research held at the Vacation Village Hotel in San Diego, California from October 19-22, 1967. One of the papers explored monocular visual evoked potentials as an index of maturity of human neonates. Another paper focused on habituation differences to tactile stimulation for waking and sleeping infants. In this paper the role of state in determining a psychological or physiological response is not disputed.

The article presents abstracts of papers presented to the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Association for the Psychophysiological Study of Sleep (APSS). APSS for founded in 1961 for the purpose of promoting both formal and informal exchange of information among workers from various disciplines with a common interest in the psychophysiology of sleep.

Presents the abstracts of papers presented to the 9th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Psychophysiological Study of Sleep, held in Boston, Massachusetts on March 20-23, 1969. Psychological correlates of phasic and tonic events during sleep; Phasic events and mentation during sleep; Dream content and physiological functioning; Time-related changes in physiological characteristics of rapid eye movement.

PP-T0001-0-1 This paper describes the inauguration of a Computer Software section in PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY. It explains the three kinds of communications that will be published: Program Registrations, Software Abstracts, and Software Articles, either theoretical or describing working programs. Detailed instructions regarding content and format are given. In anticipation of a computerized software retrieval system for psychophysiology, it also contains coding instructions for authors so they may identify their papers by subject, organ system, machine, and language prior to submission. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Arguments are presented in answer to Surwillo's criticism of a statistical procedure used by Stennett (1957) to test the hypothesis of an inverted-U relationship between alpha amplitude and palmar conductance. Surwillo (1965), despite unwise methodology, produced data consistent with the hypothesis that alpha amplitude bears an inverted-U relationship to heart rate. In a recent paper, Surwillo claimed that Stennett (1957), in demonstrating an inverted-U relationship between alpha amplitude and palmar conductance, "misused x[SUP2] by violating the requirement that entries from which x[SUP2] values are computed must be independent," and suggested further that Stennett's "positive finding is really an artifact of the method" (Surwillo, 1965, p. 250). In attempting to support this assertion, Surwillo states that "The method is clearly invalid, because data.., were combined according to a rule which assumes that an inverted-U function relates the variables" (Surwillo, 1965, p. 251). He then refers to hypothetical data which are obviously arranged to "prove" his point (Surwillo, 1965, Fig. 2). The purposes of this paper are: (1) to clarify the rationale of the statistical technique involved; (2) to illustrate the fallacy of the conclusions to which Surwillo is drawn by his hypothetical data; and (3) to point out certain methodological problems and pitfalls involved in studies along "the arousal continuum." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents abstracts of the literature, published in October 1964 issue of the journal Psychophysiology. The paper, heart rate responses during experimentally induced anxiety by R.S. Jenks G.E. Deane, presents cardiac acceleration was associated to a state of anxiety involving expectation to receive a noxious stimulus, cardiac deceleration to a state of fear immediately prior to and during the time of stimulus. The paper, demonstration of long-term retention of a conditioned Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) by A.E. Edwards and L.E.A. Acker focuses on skin response

Eleven statistical programs have been developed for use with heart rate data, and seven of the programs are illustrated in this paper. The programs make use of ANOVA and trend analysis to isolate the components of polyphasic response curves. The analysis can determine whether there are systematic changes over trials in the shape and phasing of the response curves, and whether there are significant differences between groups in the size of the trend components. The programs may be employed with other psychophysiological data having the same general properties as cardiac data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reviews a number of years of comprehensive research in the use of electric shock as a pain stimulus in the psychophysiology laboratory. The development of a standard stimulation technique is described. Studies involving the use of this procedure to investigate psychological, physiological, and clinical factors that affect the evaluation of pain are discussed. Cultural and behavioral influences on pain tolerance are investigated and physiological response measures tested. Possible clinical applications are studied, and special consideration is given to the psychophysical evaluation of the sensory and connotative components of the pain experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Elliott's comments on the comparability of heart rate measures in cross-laboratory comparisons are discussed. The present paper attempts to show that the comparison of heart rate data across various laboratories in an attempt to infer motivational states may not be justified. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to propose a scheme as to how the activities of the heart might be viewed in psychophysiological endeavors and theory. It is proposed that a necessary starting point is the metabolically relevant relationship between cardiac and somatic processes. This relationship is relevant to both an understanding of basic behavioral processes as well as psychopathological states of cardiac functioning. For these purposes, a strategy is outlined which, among other things, involves the evaluation of the influence of the cardiac innervations. Here it is proposed that heart rate most unequivocally reflects vagal activity, while the contractile properties of the heart manifest most unequivocally sympathetic effects. The implications of these arguments are discussed with regard to current studies involving the operant modification of heart rate. It is suggested that the significance of current operant studies to both issues of learning theory and psychopathology of cardiac function is questionable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A previous paper of ours (Begleiter, Gross, & Kissin, 1967) demonstrated that it was possible to condition affective meaning to meaningless figures (CS), and significantly alter visual evoked potential (VEP) amplitudes and latencies to them, without the S's awareness of the CS-UCS relationship (Experiment I, totally unaware). In the present study some Ss were deliberately informed that a CS-UCS connection existed; however, the exact nature of their relationship was not divulged (Experiment II, slightly aware). Other Ss were explicitly informed of the correct CS-UCS contingency, and entire conditioning paradigm (Experiment III, fully aware). One physiological (VEP) and two behavioral (interfiash interval and semantic differential) indices of conditioning were obtained during an extinction procedure, and demonstrated significant differences between CRs in Experiment II, but none in Experiment III. VEP amplitudes to positive and negative CSs were enhanced in Experiment II, and suppressed in Experiment I, in comparison to the neutral CS. This effect was most marked in responses to the negative CS. It is suggested that level of awareness of the CS-UCS contingency might be reflected in our physiological index of conditioning - VEP amplitude. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reports the variable conditional effects of a person on the heart rate of nine mongrel dogs. There were three experimental procedures: person present and playing a passive role, person present and playing an active role (petting the dog), and person present and serving as a signal for forthcoming electrical stimulation. The order of presentation of these conditions was counterbalanced with dogs assigned randomly to one of three orders of procedures. Each procedure consisted of 50 trials (exposures to a human). On each trial, the person entered the conditioning room and stood motionless for 40 sec. The petting and shock reinforcements occurred 40 sec after the person entered the room, enabling the study of conditional heart rate changes in the interval from appearance of the person to reinforcement. Heart rate changes varied with the "meaning" of the person, and the rates from high to low were in the order: person serving as a signal for subsequent punishment, person alone, and person serving as a signal for subsequent petting. It was stressed that an experimenter could have marked and varied social, psychophysiological effects upon the individuals being studied, and that in any experiment it is necessary to properly evaluate these effects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Lockhart and Grings (1963) have suggested that a previous analysis of galvanic skin response (GSR) conditioning by Stewart, Stern, Winokur, and Fredman (1961) failed to establish its major point since it neglected to include a pseudoconditioning control for sensitization effects. In the present paper an experiment is reported in which this control was included, and it was found that the initial report of Stewart et al. was supported. That is, then was significant evidence of a conditional anticipatory GSR which was not due to sensitization effects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Heart rate was recorded on a SETAR (Serial Event Tinter and Recorder) This gave a digital reading on punched paper tape for each R-R interval. A computer program for the analysis of cyclic cardiac activity, which identifies the troughs and peaks in a series of heart beats, is described. These readings are cast into frequency distributions, as are differences between successive troughs and peaks, both in terms of amplitude and elapsed time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents abstracts of various research papers related to psychophysiology as of July 1964. First abstract states that an invisibly small thumb-contraction was conditioned under secondary positive reinforcement in four adult human subjects without their observation of the response. Electromyographic detection enabled the experimenter to reinforce the response by advancing on the subject's illuminated scoreboard the count of nickels earned. One of the abstract is related to interaction of noise with knowledge of results and sleep deprivation.

This article discusses context effects in judgment as a function of experience. Since many of the classical phenomena of psychophysics have been found in all areas of judgment, there is every reason to assume their existence in the processes of clinical judgment and to hope that their further investigation here will lead to the refinement and improvement of clinical prediction. This paper is concerned with those shifts or distortions in judgment which can be produced by altering the context within which the stimulus appears.

This paper examines variations in psychophysiological symptom scores for wives of alcoholics in contrasting periods of abstinence and drinking. Much of the applicable literature has stressed that these wives unconsciously want to maintain their husbands' active alcoholism and are very resistant to treatment efforts. It has also been stated that many of these women are apt to develop compensatory symptoms of disturbance if their spouses achieve sobriety. The women in all four comparison groups revealed less symptoms when their husbands were abstaining, with no major differences between those wives with currently drinking spouses and those whose husbands were currently abstaining.

Line-frequency interference in EEG records is often caused by electrostatic or electromagnetic fields in the vicinity of the subject. This paper describes antennas and procedures which allow such fields to be measured and their sources determined, thus facilitating removal of the sources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A device is described for measurement of interbeat intervals form electrocardiographie records. The device provides simple and accurate measurements of heart rate and is particularly valuable when the recording has been made at a relatively slow paper speed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the eighth annual meeting of The Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy that will be held between November 1st and 3rd, 1974 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Chicago, Illinois. The address for registration and submission of research papers is also given.

The article reports on the fourteenth annual meeting of Society for Psychophysiological Research to be held from October 24th through 27th, 1974 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Registration information may be obtained from arrangements chairman of Department of Social and Behavioral Science William F. Prokasy. Information regarding submission of papers and deadline for abstracts may be obtained from professor Emanuel Donchin from the University of Illinois campus.

From February 15th through 20th, 1974, the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Biofeedback Research Society will be held in Colorado Springs, Colorado, at the Broadmoor Hotel. Information regarding submission of papers, deadline for abstracts, and registration may be obtained from: Francine Butler, BRS Executive Secretary, Department of Psychiatry #202, University of Colorado Medical Center, 4200 E. Ninth Avenue, Denver, Colorado 80220.

The article presents announcements of congresses and conventions on psychophysiology published in the May 1973 issue of the journal "Psychophysiology." From October 25th through 28th, 1973, the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research will be held in Galveston, Texas, at the Galvez Hotel and Motel. Registration information may be obtained from: Ernest Barratt, Arrangements Chairman, University of Texas Medical School Galveston, Texas From December 7th through 9th, 1973, the Seventh Annual International Convention of The Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy will be held in Miami Beach, Florida, at the Fontainebleau Hotel. In addition to a full program of research and clinical papers, a comprehensive program of training workshops led by several notable behavior therapists will be offered.

This article presents information on the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research that will be held in Boston, Massachusetts, at the Sheraton-Plaza Hotel, Copley Square from November 9th through 12th, 1972. Information regarding submission of papers and deadline for abstracts may be obtained from Barry M. Shmavonian, Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute, Henry Avenue, Philadelphia.

This article provides information on the eight annual meeting of the society for psychophysiological research that will be held on October 1968 in Washington, D.C. Following are the preconditions for contributing articles during the meeting. Word limit is set to 250 words for articles to be published in Psychophysiology. Papers of abstracts by contributors are to be submitted to physician Clinton Brown. Last date for submission of articles is August 1, 1968. Host chairman of the program is physician James Prescott.

The eighth annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research will be held from October 17-20, 1968 at the Mariott Twin Bridges Motor Hotel in Washington D.C. Program chairman for the meeting is Clinton C. Brown, member of Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science in Maryland. Abstracts of papers to be presented should be submitted to Brown before August 1, 1968. They must be limited to 250 words if the author wishes them to be published in the journal "Psychophysiology." Abstracts which are acceptable but for which there is no room in the meeting program will also be published in the journal.