Originally published in 1979, the worlds leading researchers contributed chapters describing their work on the orienting reflex in humans. The contributions, at the time current and comprehensive, in a sense that each facet of contemporary research was represented, address the orienting reflex, now recognized as a fundamental component of human learning and cognitive function. The authors contributing to this volume emphasize both theoretical and methodological issues, as well as present more empirical research. Here is a volume that spans all current work on the orienting reflex in humans, both basic and applied, from the laboratory as well as clinical data, and which would be of immense interest to psychologists, psychophysiologists, psychiatrists, physiologists, and all others interested in this fascinating topic.
Prologue. Part 1: Physiological Mechanisms of the Orienting Reflex
1.
The Orienting Reaction: Key to Brain Re-presentational Mechanisms
2.
Habituation and the Orienting Reflex: The Dual-Process Theory Revisited
3.
Orienting and Evoked Potentials
4. Event-Related Slow Potentials of the Brain
as Expressions of Orienting Function
5. Maintenance and Habituation of the
Phasic Orienting Response to Competing Stimuli in Selective Attention
6.
Habituation of the Components of the AEP to Stimuli of Different Intensities
7. Interstimulus Interval Length and Habituation of the P300 Part 2: Cardiac
and Motor Processes in Orienting
8. Distinguishing Among Orienting, Defense,
and Startle Reflexes
9. Orienting Activity in Two-Stimulus Paradigms as
Reflected in Heart Rate
10. Orienting and Defensive Cardiac Responses
11.
Myocardial Performance and Stress: Implications for Basic and Clinical
Research
12. Some Questions about the Motor Inhibition Hypothesis
13. A
Psychobiological Approach to the Differentiation of Orienting and Defense
Responses
14. Evaluation of Temporal Vasomotor Components of Orienting and
Defensive Responses
15. Neonatal Heart-Rate Response to Auditory Stimuli
Varying in Intensity over Trials Part 3: Orienting and Behavioral Plasticity
16. Unconditioned and Conditioned Orienting Reflex: Psychophysiological
Investigations
17. Interrelationships Among Components of Orienting Behavior
18. Orienting Reflexes and Classical Conditioning in Humans
19. A Pavlovian
Psychophysiological Perspective on the OR: The Facts of the Matter
20. The
Effect of Stimulus Intensity and Intertrial Interval on Long-Term Retention
of the OR
21. A Comparison of the Pupillary and Electrodermal Components of
the Orienting Reflex in Sensitivity to Initial Stimulus Presentation,
Repetition, and Change
22. The Effects of Representation of an Habituation
Stimulus Coincident with a Period of High Arousal on Long-Term Habituation of
the Electrodermal Orienting Response
23. Pavlovian First and Second Signal
System Influences on the SCR Component of the Orienting Reflex
24. The
Orienting Component of the Classically Conditioned GSR
25. The Orienting
Response and Subjective Assessment of Stimulus Significance Part 4:
Attentional and Cognitive Factors in Orienting
26. Monotony and Uncertainty
in the Habituation of the Orienting Reflex
27. The Orienting Response,
Attention, and Learning: An Information-Processing Perspective
28. Orienting
Response and Information-Processing: Some Theoretical and Empirical Problems
29. The Interaction of Stimulus Information with Potential Stimulus
Significance in Eliciting the Skin Conductance Orienting Response
30.
Stimulus Significance and the Orienting Reaction
31. Orienting Reflex and
Uncertainty Reduction in a Concept-Learning Task
32. Selective Attention and
the Orienting Response Part 5: Personality and Individual Differences in the
Orienting Reflex
33. The Orienting Reflex as a Personality Correlate
34.
Orienting and Defensive Reflexes in the Detection of Deception
35. The
Orienting Reflex in Anxiety and Schizophrenia
36. A Comparison of Auditory
Behavior in the Premature and Full-Term Infant: The Effects of Intervention
37. Individual Differences in Infant Speech Perception: A Method of
Assessment
38. Habituation and Conditioning of the Orienting Reflex in
Intellectually Gifted and Average Children
39. Variations of the Orienting
Response in Learning-Disabled Children
40. Extroversion Orienting Reaction
Habituation Rate and Sensitivity to Visual Stimuli
41. Sex Differences in
Habituation of the Orienting Reflex
42. Electrodermal Measures of Arousal in
Humans with Cortical or Subcortical Brain Damage
43. Individual Differences
in Orienting Response Magnitude Related to Academic Performance
44.
Information Content of the Electrodermal Orienting Response
45. Differential
Drug Action on Electrodermal Orienting Responses as Distinct from Nonspecific
Responses and Electrodermal Levels
46. Applied Research and the Orienting
Reflex: A Few Proposals. Author Index. Subject Index.
H. D. Kimmel, E. H. van Olst and J. F. Orlebeke
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