ISSN:
1469-8986
Source:
Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
Topics:
Medicine
,
Psychology
Notes:
Spontaneous heart rate changes and spontaneous galvanic skin response (GSR) fluctuations were compared with motor performance on a task said to measure motor impulsivity in two identical experiments. With the use of a total of 64 male college students as subjects, the conclusion drawn from the experiment was that neither of the physiological measures related significantly to impulsive performance. This was true for both a complex motor task and for simple reaction time performance. It is argued that if there is a relationship between spontaneous autonomic activity and motor impulsivity as has been previously reported, the conditions under which this may be demonstrated must be quite specific. The present findings are interpreted as requiring limitations on the generalizability of the relationship previously reported. Heart rate, GSR, Impulsivity, Reaction time. (R. F. Docter)
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8986.1964.tb02623.x
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