Psychosomatic Medicine 29:433-440 (1967)
© 1967 American Psychosomatic Society

Response Delay, Psychophysiologic Activation, and Recognition of One's Own Voice

¹ Menninger Foundation, Topeka, Kans.; Prince George's Hospital, Cheverly, Md.

One hundred and ten subjects were confronted with the verbal discriminatory task of differentiating their own voices from those of other people. The Ss were asked to delay their verbal report for 12 sec., while GSR, GSP, and EEC were recorded. A significantly larger number of Ss in the experiment recognized their own voices as compared to the results obtained by other experimenters who requested an immediate verbal report from their Ss. A year later 65 of the original 110 Ss were confronted with the same task but requested to give their report immediately after listening to the recorded voices. The results supported the hypothesis that allowing time for the autonomic reaction to reach a maximum improves the Ss' identification of their own voices. A significantly different physiological response was observed when the Ss listened to their own voices as compared to listening to the voices of other people.

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