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Orienting response

The orienting response (OR), also called orienting reflex, is an organism's immediate response to a change in its environment, when that change is not sudden enough to elicit the startle reflex. The phenomenon was first described by Russian physiologist Ivan Sechenov in his 1863 book Reflexes of the Brain, and the term ('ориентировочный рефлекс' in…

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related to References · 11
Orienting response → Information Processing, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, London, Lyytinen, Mahwah, Naatanen, New Jersey, Publishers, Sokolov, Spinks, The Orienting Response In
related to Role between emotion and attention · 8
Orienting response → Both, Conversely, More, OR, Specifically, Studies, These, With
related to Orienting in decision-making · 7
Orienting response → Gaze, Noting, Shimojo, Simion, The, This, When
related to Habituation · 6
Orienting response → However, OR, Provided, Sokolov's, Sokolovian, When
related to In popular culture · 4
Orienting response → Al Gore, In, Reason, The Assault
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Orienting response → reaction to novel or significant stimuli

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