Publication: A broadband acoustic stimulus is more likely than a pure tone to elicit a startle reflex and prepared movements

PDF  In order to be able to confidently assert that any RT speeding following a startling acoustic stimulus (SAS) is the result of activation in subcortical areas related to the startle reflex, a reliable indication that a startle reflex actually occurred is required. While the eye-blink response is typically used…

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Publication: Responses to startling acoustic stimuli indicate that movement‐related activation is constant prior to action: a replication with an alternate interpretation

PDF  This study is a replication of a previous experiment that investigated how movement-related brain activation changes as a go-stimulus approaches in time. The previous experiment used a startle to show that activity increased in short time prior to the go-signal. However, startle activity was not reported, so this was only…

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