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Psychosomatic Medicine 29:441-449 (1967)
© 1967 American Psychosomatic Society

Electroencephalographic Correlates of Perceptual Style: Field Orientation

JUDSON A. PILLSBURY M.D.1, SANFORD MEYEROWITZ M.D.2, LEONARD F. SALZMAN PH.D.2, and RICHARD SATRAN M.D.2

1 Departments of Psychiatry and Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, N. Y.; National Institute of Mental Health, U. S.
2 Departments of Psychiatry and Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, N. Y.

EEG responses for 74 subjects were found to correlate with their field orientation as measured by the rod-and-frame test. There was a differential reactivity to visual and auditory stimuli in relation to field orientation, but with responses occurring in opposite directions with the 2 different kinds of stimuli. During a period of recording with eyes open, it was found that field-independent subjects sustained significantly more alpha activity than did their field-dependent counterparts. The concept of field orientation appears to be a potentially useful framework within which relationships between psychological and neurophysiological organization may be studied.

Submitted on June 27, 1966






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