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Differences Between Normals and Schizophrenics on Activation-induced Change in Two-flash Fusion Threshold

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

D. J. Hieatt  and
J. E. Tong
D. J. Hieatt
Affiliation:
University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
J. E. Tong
Affiliation:
University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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Research relating brain stem stimulation and cortical selectivity by Lindsley (1957) led Venables (1963) to utilize a score from a perceptual discrimination task (two-flash fusion threshold, T.F.T.) to examine hypotheses relating arousal level to perceptual dysfunction and schizophrenic symptoms. Other work failed to confirm the results (Hume and Claridge, 1965), possibly due to the unsuitable method of determining T.F.T., a method of constant stimuli. The following experiments were based on the proposition that perceptual functioning is related to arousal level, and also attempted to resolve confusions arising from earlier studies by control of possible sources of error in the experimental situation.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 115 , Issue 521 , April 1969 , pp. 477 - 478
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1969 

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