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Signal-to-noise ratio as a predictor of startle amplitude and habituation in the rat.

Michael Davis
- 01 May 1974 - 
- Vol. 86, Iss: 5, pp 812-825
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This article is published in Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology.The article was published on 1974-05-01. It has received 64 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Signal-to-noise ratio & Habituation.

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The Mammalian Startle Response

TL;DR: It would be useful to study a relatively simple behavior that can be elicited in mammals and that is sensitive to a variety of experimental treatments to approach the problem at this level.
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Neurochemical modulation of sensory-motor reactivity: acoustic and tactile startle reflexes.

TL;DR: The present review argues that the startle reflex is particularly well suited as a model system to analyze how drugs alter stimulus reactivity and reflex excitability and that drugs or lesions that are thought to alter neurochemical transmitter systems affect acoustic and/or tactile startle.
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Behavioral studies following lesions of the mesolimbic and mesostriatal serotonergic pathways.

TL;DR: These experiments suggest that the mesolimbic serotonergic pathway originating in B8 subserves some of the inhibition necessary to dampen behavioral responsivity.
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Tactile, acoustic and vestibular systems sum to elicit the startle reflex

TL;DR: Cross-modal summation is stronger than intramodal temporal summation, suggesting that the convergence of acoustic, vestibular and tactile information is important for eliciting startle.
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Statistical Principles in Experimental Design

TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce the principles of estimation and inference: means and variance, means and variations, and means and variance of estimators and inferors, and the analysis of factorial experiments having repeated measures on the same element.
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Statistical Principles in Experimental Design

TL;DR: This chapter discusses design and analysis of single-Factor Experiments: Completely Randomized Design and Factorial Experiments in which Some of the Interactions are Confounded.
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Acoustic and temporal factors in the evocation of startle.

TL;DR: Although a relatively weak signal could inhibit the reaction to a subsequently presented intense signal, the effect was independent of the frequency characteristics of either signal.
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