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Three groups of 10 Ss each were subjected to a habituation procedure with an auditory stimulus. Recordings were made of EEG and skin conductance. One group was tested in the morning after one night of sleep deprivation ( SD) and the two others in the morning and afternoon following an ordinary night of sleep. The SD group showed a faster occurrence of sleep than did the other two groups, whereas the groups did not differ in rate of habituation of skin conductance responses to stimuli. Still, correlations between measures of arousal and habituation over all Ss were significant.
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This study was supported by a grant from the Swedish Council for Social Science Research.
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Bohlin, G. The relationship between arousal level and habituation of the orienting reaction. Psychobiology 1, 308–312 (1973). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03326930
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