Somatic activity under reduced stimulation.

Physiological changes accompanying the visualization of fearful and neutral situations.

“…This effect could have resulted from anticipatory muscle tension. Davis (1959), in studying physiological responses during minimal stimulation (lying on a cot in a dark, soundproofed room), found increased muscular activity with time, and suggested that this tension pattern could be characteristic of anticipation. In the present experiment, the preliminary 3-minute warning could have augmented any such effect, and reading the first scene might have served to relieve tension from the higher anticipatory level.…”

Mapping the Tip of the Tongue—Deprivation, Sensory Sensitisation, and Oral Haptics

“…For fasting individuals the hands still provide haptic stimulation by everyday activities (Amazeen 1999), but oral haptics are restricted to drinking fluids, speaking (eg Leung and Ciocca 2004), and possibly brushing teeth, which are sensory stimulations being substantially weaker than eating food (cf Duffy 2007;Rosenthal 1999). Deriving from classical findings concerning the effects of general sensory deprivation (Davis 1959;Jones 1964;Jones et al 1961;Cohen 1964a, 1964b; see Sami et al 2006, for a more recent approach on visceral sensitisation and pain) it can be predicted that food deprivation leads to sensory sensitisation of the oral mucosa, which would lead to overestimation of size induced by food deprivation compared to satiation for both food and non-food objects, but selectively in oral, and not in manual, haptics.…”

Perceptual Isolation As a Stress Situation

“…One also wonders if these athletic 5j were stressed more by the kinesthetic than by the visual and auditory restrictions. Con¬ sidering the small Vs on which the correla¬ tions in both groups are based (10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15) it is unfortunate that the authors did not replicate the first study with a similar population. sources, and time sense distortion) in the Field-Oriented (or "Field-Dependent") than in the Body-Oriented (or "Field-Inde¬ pendent") -S\s\ Goldberg19 used Rorschach and Figure-Drawing scores to define FieldDependency and found that four Field-De¬ pendent Ss scored significantly higher on a questionnaire scale of maladaptive response to two hours of water tank immersion isola¬ tion than four Field-Independent (BodyOriented) Ss.…”

“…Al¬ though two 5"s showed normal postisolation records the others showed a reduction of -waves and increases in ö-activity, particu¬ larly in the temporal lobes. Zubek et al 63 ran 15 for two weeks in perceptual isola¬ tion (unpatterned light and white noise). A progressive decrease in frequencies in the -range and an increase in the proportion of ö-waves from the occipital lobes were found.…”