Heart Rate as a Discriminative Stimulus

Epstein, Leonard H.; Cinciripini, Paul M.; McCoy, James F.; Marshall, William R.

doi:10.1111/j.1469-8986.1977.tb03365.x

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“…The results of the present study are consistent with previous research in which physiological cues are established as discriminative stimuli (e.g., Brener and Jones, 1974;Epstein and Stein, 1974;Epstein, Cinciripini, McCoy, and Marshall, 1977). An interesting finding was the maintenance of feedback effects in Group I for two weeks following feedback withdrawal.…”

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The Effects of Feedback on Blood Pressure Discrimination

Cinciripini¹,

Epstein

Martin

1979

J of App Behav Analysis

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Discrimination of blood pressure in the natural environment as a function of feedback was assessed. Seventeen normotensives screened for blood pressure lability were randomly assigned to two groups. These subjects were then asked to estimate their systolic and diastolic blood pressure values two times per day over a 4-week period. Feedback for accuracy of blood pressure discriminations was implemented across the two groups in a multiple baseline fashion, using a feedback withdrawal condition in Group I to assess maintenance effects over time. Results showed improvement in discrimination accuracy for subjects in both groups when feedback was used, and no decrement in performance over a 2-week period after feedback was removed for subjects in Group I. Discrimination of systolic pressures improved at a slightly faster rate than discrimination of diastolic pressures.

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The Effects of Feedback on Blood Pressure Discrimination

Cinciripini¹,

Epstein

Martin

1979

J of App Behav Analysis

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“…Heart rate is probably the parameter that has been most frequently used, probably because palpitation is often reported by phobic clients and because it is rather easily measured in the laboratory and in in vivo situations. The interoceptive discrimination of changes in heart rate has, however, been reported to be rather low in normal, resting situations (Brener and Jones, 1974;Epstein et aL, 1977;Epstein and Stein, 1974;Clemens, 1979). Borkovec (1976) has described a self-rating scale originally developed by called the Autonomic Perception Questionnaire (APQ) where the client is to rate to what extent he/she perceives changes in different physiological parameters when feeling anxious.…”

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Perception of autonomic reactions and actual heart rate in phobic patients

Johansson

Öst

1982

Journal of Behavioral Assessment

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“…The results of all three studies suggested that perfor-mance feedback facilitated cardiac perception. However, as Ashton et al (1979) and Epstein et al (1977) have pointed out, these studies were not designed to indicate which sensory events are actually being perceived or what particular strategies were being utilized. Thus, a major purpose of the fIrst of two experiments described below was to identify which cues, of those available in external feedback, were utilized by subjects to improve cardiac perception.…”

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Cardiac perception and the voluntary control of heart rate

Gannon

1980

Psychobiology

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Twenty-four men and twenty-four women participated in an experiment designed to examine the relationships among cardiac interoception, external feedback, and the voluntary control of heart rate. The concept of cardiac interoception was operationalized as heart-rate estimation in Experiment 1 and as heart-rate discrimination in Experiment 2. The heart-rate estimation task proved to be the more reliable and productive of the two operations in assessing perception of internal cues associated with cardiac activity. The cardiac estimation data suggested that instructional set and type of feedback did influence the learning of cues related to cardiac perception but that feedback did not enable subjects to learn to perceive their cardiac activity accurately. Analysis of the relationship between cardiac awareness and heart-rate control indicated that the facilitating effects of feedback on voluntary control are not mediated by cardiac awareness and that this model of biofeedback is inappropriate. This study is based on a dissertation submitted to the University of Wisconsin in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the PhD degree under the direction of Peter J. Lang, whose assistance in all phases of this project is gratefully acknowledged. I would also like to thank Michael Falconer and Stephen N. Haynes for their help.

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Heart Rate as a Discriminative Stimulus

Cited by 18 publications

References 13 publications

The Effects of Feedback on Blood Pressure Discrimination

The Effects of Feedback on Blood Pressure Discrimination

Perception of autonomic reactions and actual heart rate in phobic patients

Cardiac perception and the voluntary control of heart rate

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