Mulholland T, McLaughlin T, Benson F
J Nerv Ment Dis. 1979 Mar;167(3):166-70. doi: 10.1097/00005053-197903000-00005.
A method for eliciting, controlling, and quantifying the alpha suppression response to a human "real-person" stimulus is presented. Improved control is achieved by a feedback from the EEG response to the presentation of the stimulus. Quantification is comprehensive in that initial response and subsequent habituation for both latency and duration are described. Patients who had suffered a focal lesion but who had recovered sufficiently to travel from one hospital to another by taxi were compared with hospitalized psychiatric patients and normal volunteers. Lesioned patients showed less EEG response to visual stimuli than did the other groups, even with an evocative, real-person stimulus. The differences among the three groups were most evident at the onset of stimulation and less so after habituation had occurred.
本文提出了一种引发、控制并量化对人类“真人”刺激的α波抑制反应的方法。通过脑电图（EEG）反应对刺激呈现的反馈实现了更好的控制。量化是全面的，因为描述了潜伏期和持续时间方面的初始反应及随后的习惯化过程。将患有局灶性病变但已恢复到足以乘坐出租车从一家医院前往另一家医院的患者与住院精神科患者及正常志愿者进行了比较。即使面对唤起性的真人刺激，病变患者对视觉刺激的脑电图反应也比其他组少。三组之间的差异在刺激开始时最为明显，习惯化发生后则不那么明显。
