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Discrimination and Arousal as Studied with Electroencephalography

WILLIAM W. K. ZUNG, M.S.; W. P. WILSON, M.D.

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1961;4(6):548-552.

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The ability of man to discriminate between auditory stimuli while asleep is general knowledge. The specificity of this discriminatory ability has, however, never been fully documented. The works of Loomis, Harvey, and Hobart¹ and Liberson² have shown that it is possible using electroencephalography to demonstrate the ability of a sleeper to discriminate auditory stimulation to a certain degree. They have also observed that a sleeper often will have EEG changes in response to auditory stimulation, but the subject will continue to sleep. Loomis et al. further observed that the EEG response to auditory stimulation was related to the depth of sleep and to the ambient noise level in the room. No observations were made regarding the EEG response to types of sound. In another publication by Loomis et al.³ these authors observed not only that arousal to auditory stimulation was . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
GALVESTON, TEXAS

National Science Foundation Summer Student Research Fellow (Mr. Zung); Director of Psychiatric Research and Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston (Dr. Wilson). Present address of Dr. Wilson is P.O. Box 3423, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Nov. 11, 1960.

This investigation was supported by a Public Health Service Research Grant M-2698 from the National Institutes of Mental Health, U.S. Public Health Service.

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