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Reaction time facilitation in affective psychotic patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Gerard Bruder ,
Allan Yozawitz ,
Ira Berenhaus  and
Samuel Sutton
Gerard Bruder*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychophysiology, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, USA
Allan Yozawitz
Affiliation:
Department of Psychophysiology, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, USA
Ira Berenhaus
Affiliation:
Department of Psychophysiology, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, USA
Samuel Sutton
Affiliation:
Department of Psychophysiology, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, USA
*
1Address for correspondence: Dr Gerard Bruder, Department of Psychophysiology, New York State Psychiatric Institute, 722 West 168 Street, New York, NY 10032, USA.
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Synopsis

The extent to which the second member of a pair of monotic clicks facilitates simple reaction time was examined for 35 psychiatric patients and 43 non-patient controls across 2 studies. Affective psychotic patients showed greater reaction time facilitation than did either schizophrenic patients or non-patient controls. Computer simulations of a ‘statistical facilitation’ model for these data are also presented.

Type
Research Article
Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , August 1980 , pp. 549 - 554
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1980

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