Showing papers on "Latency (engineering) published in 1970"

A Short-Latency Labyrinthine Input to the Vestibular Nuclei in the Pigeon

Abstract: Electrical stimulation of the pigeon labyrinth evokes responses in many second-order vestibular neurons with a latency shorter than the monosynaptic delay These early responses are probably due to electrically mediated synaptic transmission, or perhaps to antidromic invasion of cells supplying efferent fibers to the labyrinth In either case the results demonstrate a difference between cat and pigeon with respect to connections between labyrinth and vestibular nuclei

Response Latencies in the YES‐NO Signal Detection Situation

Abstract: Response latencies were recorded from observers given the task of detecting sinusoidal signals presented in a white noise background. On each trial, the probability that a signal would be presented was 0.5. The observers indicated their decisions as to whether or not a signal had been presented by pressing buttons. They were instructed to adopt different decision criteria (strict, medium, or lax) for making a YES response during different sessions of the experiment. For most criteria adopted, the mean latency of YES responses was less than the mean latency of NO responses. In addition, the mean latency of YES responses made after a signal had been presented was less than the mean latency of YES responses made after noise alone had been presented. Similarly, the mean latency of NO responses to noise alone was less than the mean latency of NO responses to signals. Latencies varied widely as a function of the criterion adopted. Receiver operating characteristics were constructed from the latency distributions, as well as from the YES and NO responses ignoring latency.