STRENGTH OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM AND LEVELS OF AROUSAL: A REINTERPRETATION

The relation of strength of stimulus to rapidity of habit‐formation

1908 • 6,230 citations

Conflict, arousal, and curiosity.

1960 • 5,766 citations

Brain stem reticular formation and activation of the EEG

1949 • 4,188 citations

A personality scale of manifest anxiety.

1953 • 3,145 citations

The effect of emotion on cue utilization and the organization of behavior.

1959 • 2,992 citations

Sensory Communication

1961 • 2,849 citations

Perception and the conditioned reflex

1964 • 2,207 citations

Drives and the C. N. S. (conceptual nervous system).

1955 • 2,004 citations

Decision processes in perception.

1961 • 1,283 citations

Cerebral states during sleep, as studied by human brain potentials.

1937 • 782 citations

Handbook of experimental psychology

1951 • 745 citations

Activation: A Neuropsychological Dimension

1979 • 631 citations

The dynamics of anxiety and hysteria

1958 • 598 citations

HABITUATION OF THE AROUSAL REACTION

1956 • 534 citations

The psychological significance of the concept of "arousal" or "activation."

1957 • 471 citations

Retinal Noise and Absolute Threshold

1956 • 435 citations

Enhancement of human performance by caffeine and the amphetamines.

1962 • 429 citations

Tonus sympathique et activité électrique corticale

1954 • 421 citations

Drive theory and manifest anxiety.

1956 • 355 citations

DETERMINANTS OF EMOTIONALITY IN RAT

1957 • 341 citations

DISCRIMINATIVE RESPONSES TO STIMULATION DURING HUMAN SLEEP

1960 • 336 citations

Biological Psychiatry

1996 • 324 citations

Brain Mechanisms and Learning

1962 • 323 citations

The Reticular Formation of the Brain Stem, Anatomical Aspects and Functional Correlations

1958 • 314 citations

Recent studies of simple reaction time.

1954 • 309 citations

Flicker Fusion Frequency: Background and Applications

1952 • 274 citations

A handbook of abnormal psychology.

1959 • 273 citations

COLLATERAL AFFERENT EXCITATION OF RETICULAR FORMATION OF BRAIN STEM

1951 • 257 citations

The effect of drugs on arousal responses produced by electrical stimulation of the reticular formation of the brain

1958 • 232 citations

Level of Arousal and the Subclassification of Schizophrenia

1962 • 230 citations

Autonomic and muscular responses, and their relation to simple stimuli.

1955 • 200 citations

Anxiety and behavioral arousal.

1957 • 185 citations

The interaction of task difficulty and motivation: The Yerkes-Dodson law revived

1959 • 178 citations

The concept of energy mobilization.

1951 • 166 citations

Reaction time and EEG activation under alerted and nonalerted conditions.

1959 • 163 citations

Drug action on the brain-stem reticular formation.

1962 • 143 citations

Effects of Stimulation of Brain Stem on Tachistoscopic Perception

1958 • 136 citations

Facilitation Et Inhibition Des Potentiels Évoqués Corticaux Dans L'éveil Cérébral

1959 • 131 citations

Facilitation réticulaire des mécanismes visuels corticaux

1960 • 128 citations

Étude topographique des réactions électroencéphalographiques conditionnées chez l'homme

1957 • 121 citations

Reticular mechanisms and behavior.

1959 • 119 citations

Relation of brain and tremor rhythms to visual reaction time

1957 • 113 citations

The energetics of human behavior

1948 • 108 citations

Research on sensory interaction in the Soviet Union.

1954 • 105 citations

Étude électrographique du cycle d'excitabilité cortical

1951 • 102 citations

The galvanic skin reflex; a review of old and recent works from a physiologic point of view.

1957 • 101 citations

UNSPECIFIC SYSTEMS OF INHIBITION AND FACILITATION OF POTENTIALS EVOKED BY INTERMITTENT LIGHT

1960 • 92 citations

THE EFFECT OF AUDITORY AND VISUAL STIMULATION ON THE SKIN POTENTIAL RESPONSE OF SCHIZOPHRENICS

1960 • 92 citations

The relationship between level of skin potential and fusion of paired light flashes in schizophrenic and normal subjects

1963 • 89 citations

Relations between muscular tension and performance.

1942 • 88 citations

Activation réticulaire et corticale d'origine chémoceptive au cours de l'hypoxie

1959 • 87 citations

DARK ADAPTATION

1941 • 86 citations

Action of eserine and amphetamine on the electrical activity of the rabbit brain.

1957 • 84 citations

The Facilitative and Inhibitory Effects of Muscular Tension upon Performance

1933 • 83 citations

The relationship between performance level and bodily activity level.

1940 • 81 citations

The effect of selective inhibition of pseudocholinesterase on the spontaneous and evoked activity of the cat's cerebral cortex

1957 • 78 citations

High Nervous Functions: Brain Functions and Learning

1961 • 78 citations

Excitation and Inhibition of Neuronal Firing in Visual Cortex by Reticular Stimulation

1961 • 77 citations

Étude topographique des réactions électroencéphalographiques conditionnées chez l'homme: (Essai d'interprétation neurophysiologique)

1957 • 76 citations

A Short Scale for Rating Paranoid Schizophrenia

1959 • 76 citations

The galvanic skin reflex (sweating) and blood-pressure as preparatory and facilitative functions.

1936 • 76 citations

Electro-Encephalography: II. Visual Stimulation and the After-Image as Affecting the Occipital Alpha Rhythm

1937 • 74 citations

Experiments in motivation

1964 • 72 citations

Non-Random Sequences in Visual Threshold Experiments

1956 • 72 citations

The dominance-contiguity theory of the acquisition of classical conditioning.

1957 • 66 citations

Changes in Threshold Level Produced by a Signal Preceding or following the Threshold Stimulus

1959 • 65 citations

Effects of distraction upon simultaneous auditory and visual evoked potentials

1962 • 59 citations

The effects of drugs on conditioning and habituation to arousal stimuli in animals

1960 • 56 citations

Tonus cortical et contrôle de la facilitation motrice d'origine réticulaire.

1957 • 53 citations

The facilitatory effect of stimulation of an unspecific thalamic nucleus on cortical sensory neuronal responses

1956 • 52 citations

Falling Asleep Open-eyed During Intense Rhythmic Stimulation

1960 • 50 citations

Drugs affecting psychotic behavior and the function of the mesodiencephalic activating system.

1955 • 50 citations

Effect of electrocortical arousal upon development and configuration of specific evoked potentials

1956 • 49 citations

The Influence of Hypothalamic Stimulation on Evoked Cortical Potentials

1955 • 48 citations

The Measurement of Muscular Tension as a Technique for the Study of Emotional Tendencies

1932 • 45 citations

The effect of simultaneous visual stimulation on absolute auditory sensitivity.

1952 • 44 citations

Reticular facilitation of responses to acoustic stimuli

1962 • 44 citations

Facilitations spécifiques et non-spécifiques des réponses visuelles corticales.

1958 • 41 citations

Magnitude of Galvanic and Vasomotor Response as a Function of Stimulus Intensity

1940 • 40 citations

INTERACTION ON CEREBRAL CORTEX OF ACOUSTIC OR OPTIC WITH NOCICEPTIVE IMPULSES: THE PROBLEM OF CONSCIOUSNESS

1954 • 38 citations

PHYSIOLOGICAL AND CLINICAL TESTS OF AUTONOMIC FUNCTION AND AUTONOMIC BALANCE

1943 • 38 citations

Effect of Analeptic Drugs on the Somnifacient Effect of Seconal and Antihistaminics as Measured by the Flicker Fusion Threshold

1952 • 36 citations

Arousal and reaction times in cats.

1960 • 36 citations

Experimental Studies of Rhythm, Anxiety and Cerebral Vigilance

1959 • 36 citations

Prediction and control of alertness. II. Continuous tracking.

1948 • 35 citations

Changes of photically evoked potentials in the visual pathway of the cerveau isolè cat

1959 • 34 citations

Effect of brightness of simultaneous visual stimulation on absolute auditory sensitivity.

1958 • 34 citations

THE INITIATION AND LOCALIZATION OF CORTICAL INHIBITION IN THE CONDITIONED REFLEX ARC

1961 • 30 citations

Retroactive Raising of a Sensory Threshold by a Contralateral Stimulus

1961 • 28 citations

Some effects of 'mental set' on the electrophysiological processes of the human cerebral cortex.

1939 • 26 citations

Changes in the response to electric shock produced by varying muscular conditions.

1926 • 25 citations

The Effect of Warning Interval on the Electric Phosphene and Auditory Thresholds

1958 • 25 citations

Influence de la formation reticulaire et du cortex cerebral sur l'excitabilite motrice au cours de l'hypoxie

1961 • 24 citations

THE INFLUENCE OF EXTRANEOUS STIMULATION ON THE REACTION TIME OF SCHIZOPHRENICS

1957 • 24 citations

Prediction of Speed of Performance by Muscle Action Potentials

1947 • 23 citations

Drugs and Personality

1960 • 21 citations

Prediction and automatic control of alertness. I. Control of lookout alertness.

1947 • 19 citations

CONCENTRATION OF ATTENTION AND STRENGTH OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM

1964 • 19 citations

ELECTRICAL RESPONSES OF THE BRAIN IN RELATION TO BEHAVIOUR

1953 • 19 citations

The effect upon reaction time of muscular tension induced at various preparatory intervals.

1940 • 17 citations

Effects of drugs on spontaneous and activated EEG of cat.

1959 • 16 citations

Pavlovian Conference on Higher Nervous Activity

1961 • 15 citations

Changes of photically evoked potentials in the visual pathway of the midpontine pretrigeminal cat

1959 • 15 citations

EFFECT OF CORTICAL AND RETICULAR STIMULATION ON CONDITIONED REFLEX ACTIVITY

1959 • 15 citations

INFLUENCE OF NOCICEPTIVE STIMULI ON EVOKED SUBCORTICAL AND CORTICAL POTENTIALS IN CAT

1956 • 14 citations

[Neurophysiologic documents relative to the mechanisms of attention in man].

1959 • 14 citations

Topischer Einflu� des Coffein auf das Gehirn

1959 • 12 citations

The Nature of Sleep; Ciba Foundation Symposium

1961 • 12 citations

THE EFFECTS OF DARKNESS AND LIGHT ON AUDITORY SENSITIVITY

1961 • 12 citations

On the relationship between reaction time to light and latency of blocking of the alpha rhythm

1952 • 12 citations

The optimal locus of 'anticipatory tensions' in muscular work.

1937 • 11 citations

[Changes in subcortical visual responses associated with attention in man].

1958 • 11 citations

Sleeping and Waking: Physiology and Psychology.

1962 • 10 citations

Lowering of an Auditory Threshold produced by a Light Signal occurring after the Threshold Stimulus

1958 • 10 citations

CRITICAL FLICKER FREQUENCY AND PHOTIC FOLLOWING IN THE CAT.

1964 • 10 citations

AN ATTEMPT TO DETERMINE THE STRENGTH OF THE PROCESS OF EXCITATION THROUGH FEATURES OF ITS IRRADIATION AND CONCENTRATION IN THE VISUAL ANALYSER

1964 • 9 citations

Facilitation et inhibition des réponses corticales visuelles chez l'homme

1962 • 8 citations

Postasymptotic performance decrements during massed reinforcements.

1960 • 8 citations

Neurological basis of behaviour. Ciba foundation symposium

1959 • 7 citations

Effect of hyperventilation on foveal critical flicker frequency

1961 • 6 citations

Mise en �vidence chez l'homme au cours d'enregistrements st�r�otaxiques thalamiques d'un contr�le central des aff�rences somesth�siques

1960 • 6 citations

Lowering of an Auditory Threshold by a near Threshold Warning Signal

1961 • 5 citations

[On certain physiological conditions facilitating in man potentials induced by intermittent photic stimulation].

1961 • 4 citations

THE AROUSAL OF THE BRAIN

1960 • 1 citations