Affiliation:
1. Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 5AN, U.K.
Abstract
Groups of newborn babies were exposed to various series of 90 dB SPL noiseband stimuli or to simulated (control) stimuli, while their heart rates (HR) and states of behavioural arousal were monitored. In general the response to stimulation was an accelerative HR change which tended to decrease with repeated stimulation. This seemed to provide evidence of habituation to the auditory stimuli. However, the HR response to sound depended on prestimulus HR and on state, and, when these effects were removed by regression techniques, the progressive decrease in evoked HR with repeated stimulation disappeared, apart from the first few trials. This implied that there was HR habituation to the initial stimuli, but not subsequently, when the apparent HR “habituation” reflected progressive endogenous state changes.
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