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Processing Sense Information

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If a person responds to a stimulus and then must respond to a second stimulus shortly afterward, the second response is often different from the first one, even if the two stimuli are identical. One explanation of this is that the first stimulus, in its neural representation, has not been “cleared through the nervous system” before a response must be made to the second stimulus. Since neural transmission of the first stimulus is not complete, the person is not optimally ready to process the second stimulus. The trace of the first stimulus persists, so to speak, leaving the responder either relatively refractory to subsequent stimulation or responsive but in a different way.

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Kline, D.W. (1984). Processing Sense Information. In: Aging and Behavior. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-38517-3_12

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