Effect of Anxiety on Alpha Responsiveness to Light Stimulation
- 1 December 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 19 (3_suppl), 1143-1146
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1966.19.3f.1143
Abstract
Ss scoring high and low on four tests of the Objective Analytic Anxiety Battery and having at least 25% time alpha rhythm in their resting EEGs received 100 trials of a single photic flash in the presence of alpha rhythm. Analysis of variance of the alpha blocking responses in right and left parieto-occipital derivations yielded a significant anxiety effect, with the low-anxiety group giving consistently more responses than the high-anxiety group. This effect was discussed in relation to the alpha blocking “conditioned” response and habituation.Keywords
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